A collection of pictures exploring New York’s Metropolis’s evolving soccer tradition by Brooklyn-based photographer Raphaël Gaultier. Initially from Seattle, Gaultier is within the idea of residence—the areas, individuals, or objects that talk to who we’re. His work has been featured in publications like The New York Instances, i-D journal, GQ, and New York Journal. He’s presently engaged on a e-book about soccer tradition, particularly how the “world’s sport” has grow to be a sanctuary amid New York Metropolis’s fast transformation. Photographing moments of play, ritual, and connection, Gaultier highlights the game as a type of resistance and belonging:
“As gentrification reshapes neighborhoods, the soccer fields, cages, schoolyards, and reclaimed areas of New York Metropolis stay among the final actually democratic environments within the metropolis. Locations the place strangers grow to be teammates, and the place language, background, and standing dissolve within the rhythm of the sport. This sequence paperwork the individuals who carry the game into their each day lives—immigrant communities preserving traditions, longtime residents reclaiming house, younger gamers crafting new identities, and followers gathering to cheer for golf equipment from hundreds of miles away. In a metropolis outlined by relentless change, this work reveals the enduring energy of soccer to carry group collectively. It’s a celebration of the game as a secure haven and common language—one that permits New Yorkers of each origin to face on the identical floor and transfer with the identical function.”
