If belief, culture, economy, education, language, and religion are all key pillars of identity, basketball in South Sudan is an ultimate element of union. Stories of men and women who came together to represent their nation, on and off the court, are now a microcosm of a country which is not under construction anymore but progressing along its long-awaited path to excellence.

The Antetokounmpo Academy is a pro bono basketball and life skills program, dedicated to changing the lives of young people through the power of sport. We feel privileged to collaborate with CAFF (Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation), who asked us to capture the stories and emotions behind the Academy and evolve the visual identity on the occasion of its 5th anniversary.

A journey into the young, talented rise of Wei Lun Zhao, the Italian Chinese gem from Varese who explains how basketball, and life, can be bilingual.

We explore the Japanese basketball scene through an interesting conversation with Steve Gaudin, a French photographer who one day, somewhat by chance, decided to take a trip to Tokyo and never went back. At least for now.

Basketball has no boundaries, weather, season or location. Brayden Elliott knows this well, as he is pioneering his own take on basketball in the big north.

We delved into the unique visual ability of Petra Leary, an award-winning New Zealand-born aerial photographer who redefined the beautiful match of bird’s eye angles, colors and composition of basketball courts among other landscapes.

In the last decade, Tokyo and the other 46 Nipponic prefectures have experienced an unprecedented rise of interest around the game of basketball.

In Copenhagen (and across Denmark) basketball is taking on an increasingly important role, emerging from the obscurity to which it has always been relegated.

The Other Dream Team is about the sports’ redemption of Lithuania, which runs after an uninhabitable dream of retaliation.

Humble rising star, wandering human being, contemporary role model. Awak Kuier was born to be all this. She was born to transmit distant and different cultures, to connect continents and people. Thanks to basketball. Read her words, explore her aesthetic, understand her calm empowerment, observe her elegant, shy grace.