Touch-Line: Kai Horstmann and daughter. Exeter Chiefs final match of season Sandy Park
Rugby as family Sank’s images of rugby players suggest a double-edged mixture of strength and tenderness seldom seen in conventional sports photography.
Rugby’s offer of familial comfort is explored: whether at Exeter Chiefs or local clubs Sank finds teams acting as sub-families; bringing support and protection if a team member is stricken by injury or accident. There is a sense of belonging and a space in which emotions can be freely expressed. Family and ritual are seen combining after the final game of the season as players bring their children onto the pitch.
Rugby’s offer of familial comfort is explored: whether at Exeter Chiefs or local clubs Sank finds teams acting as sub-families; bringing support and protection if a team member is stricken by injury or accident. There is a sense of belonging and a space in which emotions can be freely expressed. Family and ritual are seen combining after the final game of the season as players bring their children onto the pitch.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 18/2020/7
- Collection Class
- Photographs
- Medium
- digital C-Type photographic print on
- Common Name
- Touch-Line: Kai Horstmann and daughter. Exeter Chiefs final match of season Sandy Park
- Simple Name
- photograph
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 16/05/2015
- Production Person Initials
- Michelle
- Production Person Surname
- Sank
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
