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Out of the blue I received a job to shoot football fans for the company that organizes football betting in Turkey.
I figured it would have something to do with the football fans photos that I had shot for Aguila in Colombia just before, but it turned out to be because of photos I did for the ‘Eat football, sleep football, drink Coca-Cola’ campaign way back in 1996. With the difference that everything in the Coca-Cola campaign was shot ‘live’ during football matches, with a crowd of assistants in the stands that made all the people occurring in the shots sign contracts, and now everything was set up with models and extras, dressed, lit, and made to look as realistic as possible.
When I arrived in Istanbul the city was in the middle of a heatwave with temperatures of over 45 degrees celcius every day - so the only way to have 150 extras sitting in the stands of the stadium all the time was to do most of the shooting in the night time.
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