Paris Match
Philippe PETIT (born 1967), Teddy Riner, 2012. Photograph. Posterior print on baryta paper, label signed by the author and by Marc Brincourt, Photo Editor
Paris Match until 2017, and numbered 1/1. 53 x 80 cm.
His friends call him "Teddy Bear": on March 29, 2012, four months before the London Olympics, the French judoka Teddy Riner, world champion in heavyweight, pretends for Paris Match to train with a real plantigrade, Martin, a 3-year-old male bear. He will win the gold medal, the only trophy missing from his record of achievements.
