"Top of the World": People on a luxury vacation

EVERY DAY PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND THE WORLD looking for new ways to tell stories or to capture what we previously did not notice. We choose interesting photo projects and ask their authors what they wanted to say. This week is the "Top of the World" series by German photographer Christian Creel, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He made his first documentary series of photographs when he traveled around Europe and worked in a vineyard in Spain. He didn’t like hard work a week later, but the idea was born to shoot the harvest. In the "Top of the world" series, Christian Creel showed visitors to the Cartier Polo Tournament - an event that is often called "diamond" for the number of rich people per square meter and, of course, for jewelry.

Once I saw a report from the Polo World Cup in the snow for the Cartier prize in St. Moritz (Switzerland). I was looking for a topic for graduation work, and girls from high society in fur coats just conquered me. On the first trip I scribbled across the bottom of the barrel, I was pretty free to photograph without any purpose and at home editing the material, I realized that I had to concentrate on shooting the fur - it looked so beautiful against the snow-white landscapes and worked as a metaphor of the image of St. Moritz and beautiful life.

I am very attracted to people and places that can be described as "rich" - this is the most undocumented group, not counting, of course, the paparazzi, but this is another story. It is amazing how interesting people can look in real life, but when you look at them through a camera lens, it seems that something is wrong. I still photograph them and at the time of editing the work I understand that intuition did not let me down. Few people wanted to act, but those who agreed were satisfied with the result.