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100 meter sprinters, women. 80-84.
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A documentary project, shot on medium format Hasselblad on black & white film, about the senior athletes competing in the masters track & field competition circuit in the United States and around the world.

Racing Age

Angela Jimenez

Racing Age is an ongoing photographic series about master’s track & field athletes. The master’s circuit starts at age 35, and pits athletes against competitors in their same 5-year age bracket. In this series, I am focusing on retirement-age athletes, those in their 70s and older. I was a Division I collegiate track & field heptathlete, and was fascinated when I discovered these older athletes. I went to a track meet out of curiosity. But what compelled me to photograph were two things:

 

First, what I saw defied visual stereotypes. These athletes are not cute, or vulnerable, or weak: They are fierce and competitive. It can actually be a bit scary to watch. It’s not what you are you used to seeing an older person do. It is inspiring and brave, but also uncomfortable. In that way, looking at who they are and what they are doing feels challenging.

 

Second, something really unique about track & field is that it measures the abilities of the human body very concretely: How fast can you run? How far can you throw? How high or far can you jump? Master’s track & field athletes are actually providing data about the evolution of human ability. Athletes of retirement age and older are living longer and better– they are continually breaking age group records for running, jumping and throwing that would have seemed impossible even a few decades ago.

 

I am shooting this project on a fully manual Hasselblad 503cx on Kodak black & white medium format film The method of shooting is slow and deliberate- metaphorically I am giving myself a slower and older body to work with.

About Angela Jimenez

Angela Jimenez is visual storyteller recently relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Minneapolis, MN.

 

A long-time contributor to The New York Times, her work has been recognized by the Magenta Foundation, New York Press Photographer’s Association, Review Santa Fe, the Communication Arts Photo Annual and supported by grants from The Alexia Foundation student award and The Puffin Foundation and is in the permanent collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay & Lesbian Art.

 

She crowd-funded and self-published her first book, Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, in August, 2009. She has taught photojournalism & multimedia at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Nassau Community College.

photos by

Angela Jimenez

Exhibition Dates

December 4, 2014 – February 16, 2015

Located at

United Photo Industries Gallery

Artist Reception

Thursday, December 4 from 6 – 9PM

Category
Gallery Exhibitions
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