Champions

Striking portraits and nude studies of leading international athletes form the basis of Champions, an eighty-print photography project created by the British artists Anderson & Low to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. 

By depicting renowned athletes at peak physical condition, without clothes, the artists seek to celebrate individual achievement while capturing the potential vulnerability of all people.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

Whether or not you go, Champions by Anderson and Low  is a book of the images that inspired this exhibition. Published in 2008.