Sweaty, red-faced, out of breath and with haunted looks in their eyes, these people look as if they have been through a traumatic experience. In fact, these anguished portraits simply show ordinary people after they have been jogging. The images are by renowned French photographer Sacha Goldberger, who decided to set up an outdoor studio in the Bois de Boulogne park in Paris to capture the cross section of society who use it for exercise. He stopped people as they ran and invited them to stand in front of a 3m² sheet of paper to be photographed. But wanting to capture them at their most off-guard, Sacha asked them to have a sprint immediately prior to being photographed. He then used the same team and equipment as on a high-level fashion shoot - complete with four assistants and studio-quality lighting. One week later, Sacha asked the joggers to wear similar clothes to his real studio. They would be photographed again using the same backdrop and lighting, but this time there would be a professional make-up and hair stylist on hand to make them look their very best.

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