Photo by @johnstanmeyer | While working on a story on piracy in the Malacca Straits, I visited Mendol, a remote island in Indonesia's Riau region. The population on Mendol is small. Very small. Google "Mendol Island," and you'll discover the only mention is a rice mill, with a photograph of a shed that looks to be from the '40s or '50s. It's as if Mendol doesn't exist. I was told to visit the pool hall in Teluk Dalam. That afternoon I spent a few hours in this hall, as milky-green light poured in on the few tables, occupied continuously with serious players. Instead of enduring another disgraceful loss (I enjoy billiards, but I'm terrible at it), I drank coffee and talked to men who were laborers on nearby islands or farm their land. Everyone was kind—the beauty of Indonesian culture—and extremely welcoming. There was an energy of desperation, though, as if everyone was waiting to go somewhere else, to do something more. To see more of my work, please follow @johnstanmeyer. #indonesia#riau#mendol#island#billiards#pool#poolhall#billiardhall
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Einfach diesen wunderschönen Moment mit Moritz festgehalten🤍 Liebt er wohl das Plantschen durch die Geburt im Wasser? Unser kleiner Mann ist immer super gelassen im Pool & strahlt richtig dabei. 🥹☀️ Unglaublich süß! Was gefällt euch besser: Pool oder Strand? #schwimmen#meinsohn#madeira#pool
New Arrivals: Flip Schulke's "Ali Underwater" 🥊
One of the most #iconic images in #sports history is, amusingly, taken inside of a #pool in #SouthFlorida. In 1961, #FlipSchulke captured an up-and-coming black #boxer submerged in one of the few desegregated pools in #America at a hotel in Overtown, a historically black neighborhood in downtown #Miami. Holding an iconic fighting stance underwater in a swimming pool, wearing his legendary #Everlast#boxing trunks, then upcoming boxer #CassiusClay became immortalized. #Jabbing underwater, to then position himself with the ultimate boxer's pose, he helped create an image that influenced the rest of his career and, fundamentally, the world of sports.
Yet, the idea for the striking picture wasn't the #photographer's alone. #CassiusMarcellusClay, who later changed his name to #MuhammadAli in honor of his faith, had met the photographer Schulke the day prior. #SportsIllustrated sent Flip Schulke to capture the young boxer who had, the year prior, taken Gold at the 1960 #Olympic games.
While meeting with the photographer, Ali recognized Schulke's affinity for shooting #underwater. The photographer recalled an article about water skiers he had recently published. Then, a day later, when meeting for the shoot, Ali was already in the pool. Perhaps, considering a cinematic moment, the nineteen-year-old boxer, charismatic and media-savvy since his earliest years, trained inside the water, telling the photographer of his "usual" underwater shadow boxing routine.[..]
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Flip Schulke
Muhammad Ali Boxing Underwater
1961, printed later
Silver Gelatin Photograph
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