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Healing Sport

Healing Sport is a project that deals with the central issue of globalization, the fact that the free flow of money and commerce around the world only contributes to create greater divides on our planet. It shows how the poorer nations have invented their own means of conducting sport, outside of the organised framework so often exemplified by the richer countries. In countries wracked by war, sport becomes a means of retaining what it means to be alive.

The work is also attempts to provide a framework in which to analyse the more disturbing issues. Can a young man who had his leg blown off by a mine become whole again? Can children who were forced to maim and kill be reintegrated with other innocents? Can people who grow up on the streets learn to become part of society? Can a society fragmented by war find ways to become united?

Tim Hetherington