I JUST WANNA SURF - Gabriella Angotti-Jones
" I Just Wanna Surf " captures the friction of finding identity and community during the pandemic and post-George Floyd era in a sport dominated by white men. Growing up in one of the only mixed-race black families in a small seaside town in Orange County, Angotti-Jones reflects on how her early relationship with the ocean and California surf culture intertwined with her identity as a black woman.
In a mix of photo book, zine and diary, Angotti-Jones challenges the traditional surfing narrative by documenting black women and non-binary surfers living the lifestyle of the 1990s and early 2000s, while making it their own. The images juxtapose the joy of friendship and refuge found in the ocean wilderness with the underlying racial tensions at the heart of the black American experience. With sensitivity and vulnerability, her text explores her experience of depression and the sense of peace that surfing brings.
Through this photographic corpus , the artist unveils a joyful, raw, complex and unique expansion of the visual history of the black American experience and its place in a rapidly changing American surfing community.
Published by Mass Books, 2022
19 cm x 23.5 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 9780997216356
" I Just Wanna Surf " captures the friction of finding identity and community during the pandemic and post-George Floyd era in a sport dominated by white men. Growing up in one of the only mixed-race black families in a small seaside town in Orange County, Angotti-Jones reflects on how her early relationship with the ocean and California surf culture intertwined with her identity as a black woman.
In a mix of photo book, zine and diary, Angotti-Jones challenges the traditional surfing narrative by documenting black women and non-binary surfers living the lifestyle of the 1990s and early 2000s, while making it their own. The images juxtapose the joy of friendship and refuge found in the ocean wilderness with the underlying racial tensions at the heart of the black American experience. With sensitivity and vulnerability, her text explores her experience of depression and the sense of peace that surfing brings.
Through this photographic corpus , the artist unveils a joyful, raw, complex and unique expansion of the visual history of the black American experience and its place in a rapidly changing American surfing community.
Published by Mass Books, 2022
19 cm x 23.5 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 9780997216356
" I Just Wanna Surf " captures the friction of finding identity and community during the pandemic and post-George Floyd era in a sport dominated by white men. Growing up in one of the only mixed-race black families in a small seaside town in Orange County, Angotti-Jones reflects on how her early relationship with the ocean and California surf culture intertwined with her identity as a black woman.
In a mix of photo book, zine and diary, Angotti-Jones challenges the traditional surfing narrative by documenting black women and non-binary surfers living the lifestyle of the 1990s and early 2000s, while making it their own. The images juxtapose the joy of friendship and refuge found in the ocean wilderness with the underlying racial tensions at the heart of the black American experience. With sensitivity and vulnerability, her text explores her experience of depression and the sense of peace that surfing brings.
Through this photographic corpus , the artist unveils a joyful, raw, complex and unique expansion of the visual history of the black American experience and its place in a rapidly changing American surfing community.
Published by Mass Books, 2022
19 cm x 23.5 cm, 144 pages
ISBN 9780997216356
