<p>Jouko Lehtola is a Finnish photographer, born in Helsinki, and most widely known for his late-90s club series "Young Heroes." He is both angry and enthusiastic, and he excels at sussing out those same reactions in unexpected places--a tattooed biker sitting below a wall of gaily colored prize ribbons; kids in mohawks and girls with clownishly messy lipstick; men with sideburns and sunburns and two black eyes. Lehtola gets, it has been said, within smelling distance, and his viewers benefit.</p>

Jouko Lehtola: Finlandia

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Charles Fr ger finds his favorite portrait subjects clustered in social crowds, work teams, or collective structures or communities, and in fact those structures are as much his subjects as the people in them. Where better to look for the forces that draw people together and set them against one another than among children being coached to wrestle? United in purpose and set against one another on the mat, Fr ger's subjects seem to struggle against one another in soundless tension, the squeak of the mat silenced, the smack of a body in the air anticipated--one subject in the process of being hauled over his opponent's back has zero points of contact with the ground.

Charles Fréger: 2Nelson

Kouwenhoven, Bill

From the photographer who brought you wrestlers, now: sumo wrestlers. Charles Fr ger has supersized his life's work with this large book of larger-format portraits of...substantially larger subjects. And perhaps a larger topic: Sumo wrestling, which dates from the Heian Period, some 1300 years ago, is not just physical combat but also a nexus of religion, history, leisure and athletics. While it has come far from its roots as an offering to the gods, and is known best in Japan as a professional sport, these amateurs display a reverence and a piercing gaze that marks them as preparing for a meditative struggle, a battle of wills and of eye contact as well as body contact. But first, the battle is to get big enough--some of the youngest wrestlers here have hundreds of pounds to go.

Charles Fréger: Rikishi

Minato, Chihiro

Mouchel, Didier

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Jouko Lehtola: Finlandia

Charles Fréger: 2Nelson

Charles Fréger: Rikishi