Feature: THE BIG PICTURE - Exhibition - Christina Jaansen at Energie Personal Fitness, NW8
Published:6 May 2010
IN 1986, on the set for an advert filmed in London, Muhammad Ali started playing around.
The great boxer’s antics were captured by photographer Christina Jaansen, but she put the film in storage and forgot about it.
Now, 24 years later, you can see these rare, behind-the-scenes photos in an exhibition that shows this witty, philosophical man as he’s never been seen before.
Jaansen has worked for decades as a photographer, covering fashion, music and travel for a range of publications, although her main work is as a portrait photographer.
Muhammad Ali’s phenomenal career led to him being nicknamed “The Greatest”.
He led a famously colourful life that was charged with politics, changing his name from Cassius Clay after joining Nation of Islam in the 1960s, when he also fervently opposed the Vietnam War.
• The show is open to the public until June 29 at Energie Personal Fitness, 41 Mackennal Street, St John’s
Wood, NW8. 6.30am–9pm Mon–Fri, 9am-6pm weekends. Limited edition archival prints are for sale at the venue.
Sponsors of the exhibition are Energie Personal Fitness stjohnswood@energiepf.com, L’Absinthe Restaurant, Primrose Hill (www.l’absinthe.co.uk), Archingtons estate agents (archingtons.com) and Ambala (ambala.co.uk)