Between January and March of 2009 I had the unique opportunity to take photographs for a professional mixed martial arts group located in Cincinnati, Ohio. I went into the experience never having witnessed the brutality of mixed martial arts let alone being cage-side for dozens and dozens of matches. I began noticing some of the compositions that were happening naturally actually looked relatively calm when reduced to a still image. Instead of looking like two men beating each other, occasionally it looked as though they were doing the complete opposite - loving each other.