Patrizi’s Sumo

Paolo Patrizi photographed sumo wrestlers for years, and what emerges isn’t the circus version most of us know. It’s the weight of it—literally and otherwise. The discipline, the ritual, the strange isolation of living inside a body and a tradition that both demand everything. His pictures aren’t flattering or cruel, just honest about what’s there. You notice the care in them, the way he waited for the quiet moments.