Julian is a twelve year-old boxing prodigy, spending day and night training and fighting with a singular focus: to become world champion.

His discipline and dedication are only matched by his father, Eric. Shaped by his upbringing in the bay-area of California, decades later Eric is determined to help Julian shape his own path.

“To be the guy who made the guy”, that is Eric’s calling.

Or in other words, to be the father who raised a world champion.

These photographs are from three months documenting a father and his son as they live out their own versions of an American boyhood.
Growing up, fighting, becoming.