NO FAIR PLAY, the photographic exhibition dedicated to those who make football special Passion beyond support

Photography-based storytelling in football serves as an exceptionally impactful communication method, imbued with deep emotional significance, consistently revealing particulars that the disorder of live streams frequently overlooks. Especially when the lens is turned towards the fans. This spirit animates NO FAIR PLAY, the photographic exhibition scheduled in Catania at the 2LAB space starting next December 19. Three archives, three cities, one pulse. From Lower Block's English terraces, to Boogie's Naples, to Emiliano Zingale's Ultras Catania. NO FAIR PLAY tells the ultras world through photography, as a space of identity, belonging and disobedience.

The exhibition brings together three projects that, in different ways, investigate the relationship between photography, the body and the territory. Lower Block is an archive and independent magazine founded by Matt Lidbury based in the United Kingdom, a platform that documents British football culture and its visual rites. Napoli Campioni d’Italia 2023 is the reportage through which Boogie, one of the most important contemporary documentary photographers, tells the city at the moment of its collective explosion — between euphoria, pride and belonging. Finally, Ultras Catania is the series by Emiliano Zingale who, for years, has explored the identity and social dimension of the Etna curve.

NO FAIR PLAY is not a football exhibition. It is dedicated to those who make football special. To those who live it in the stadium at every match with passion and commitment. To the communities that inhabit it. To the cities that reflect it. To the images that keep its collective memory. A deep exploration of what makes this sport a global cultural and social phenomenon. A project curated in every detail by 2LAB Culture Contemporanee and which will remain open to the public until January 18, 2026.