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Mi Relig(10)n | Football, Faith and Fandom in Buenos Aires

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The latest release from Lower Block Edition explores one of football’s most powerful truths: in Argentina, the game goes far beyond sport. It is ritual, identity, devotion and, for many, religion.

Mi Relig(10)n | Camila Faraci Lower Block
Mi Relig(10)n © Camila Faraci | Lower Block

In Mi Relig(10)n), Buenos Aires-born photographer Camila Faraci turns her lens toward the football culture that defines her city. Across 56 pages and more than 40 vivid colour photographs, the A5 photo zine captures the emotional weight football carries in the Argentine capital – where passion runs deep and allegiance is inherited, lived and felt daily.

Buenos Aires is home to more football clubs than any city in the world, and Faraci’s series moves through ten of its most iconic institutions: Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo, Huracán, Independiente, Racing, Ferro, Atlanta, Platense and Argentinos Juniors. From towering stadiums and neighbourhood streets to murals and shrines dedicated to Diego Maradona – Argentina’s eternal El Di10s – each image reveals football as a cultural force woven into everyday life.

Mi Relig(10)n | Camila Faraci Lower Block

In a country shaped by economic instability and political uncertainty, football offers something constant: belonging, escape and belief. Faraci’s work captures that connection with intimacy and honesty, documenting not just fandom but faith.

Camila will also be showing a selection of images from the series at Crow Coffee on 25 June, located at 21 Rue Albert Thomas, 75010 Paris.

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