A light well, a square of fake turf and hard sun dropping straight down between the buildings. At Sparring Center in Buenos Aires, CrossFit athletes train out in this small courtyard, flipping tractor tyres, holding handstands against the wall and lifting with their shadows pooled beneath them.
From a rooftop next door, reached by a ladder of rungs set into the wall, the frames look straight down and turn the training into geometry. Inside, plywood panels line the gym and give the pull-up rig and the portraits a warm, plain backdrop. The fitness photography embraces the hard light rather than avoiding it, and lets shape, shadow and muscle do the work.