You be the judge

Frankly I believe that these photos are silly. They are at best stupid and unprofessional. The goal of a pro is to please the client, so called artistic goals that in this case are really inane notwithstanding.
The man is trying too hard to be different and he has shown his ass as my African American brother would say.  as we say in Italy. This really talks volumes about the state of photography these days. I feel that everything has been photographed so this craft is on it's was out. It has gotten just too silly, to the point of irrelevancy. This is taken from a DP  Review article :

Photographer Joe Klamar's portraits of US Olympic atheletes have caused a lot of controversy this week, especially in the USA. Reaction to the shots, taken for French photo agency AFP, has been varied, with many commentors dismissing his images as unprofessional at best, and at worst unpatriotic. Others have defended Klamar, arguing that his apparently unpolished images represent a deliberate attempt to challenge the conventions of portrait photography. The truth, it turns out, is more mundane. It seems Klamar was simply caught unprepared.

Unprepared, yes indeed, caught with is proverbial pants down.