Neymar Jr’s Five – Red Bull

Small pitch, quick feet, no time to overthink.

For a Red Bull campaign around Neymar Jr’s Five, I photographed Neymar Jr and some of his teammatesin Paris. When plans changed at short notice, a break room at Red Bull’s headquarters became my pop-up studio. A few lights, a white background and very little space—that was all we needed. My contribution was the photography; the final key visual shown here was created and laid out by Red Bull using my studio images.

The clean, graphic studio portraits were followed by a completely different setup: Neymar playing alongside professional and amateur footballers inside a street-football cage.

Neymar Jr’s Five brought the directness of street football into a global five-a-side tournament: no goalkeeper, ten-minute matches, and every goal sending one opposing player off the pitch. Fast, close and unpredictable – much like the shoot itself.