In her first book, 'I Just Wanna Surf,' photographer Gabriella Angotti-Jones celebrates her local Californian community of young women and non-binary surfers, addressing their traditional underrepresentation within the sport.
, shows two women in bathing suits with surfboards in tow standing on a beach as their eyes fixate on the ocean. The gently blurred shot, captured on film, is covered in polka dot-like saltwater abrasions, a result of water seeping through the camera’s outer shell.
“I just completely let the experience happen to me and photographed what I was truly feeling and experiencing at the moment,” says Angotti-Jones.Published by Mass Books, the photo book documents the simple pleasures of Black women and non-binary surfers enjoying surfing and each other’s company. Each picture drips with raw emotion and authenticity—a young surfer in a wetsuit puts on sunscreen, a woman rests on a floating surfboard in the ocean with her face down, and a girl screams underwater.
Growing up in one of the only biracial households in California’s Capistrano Beach in Orange County, a surfing mecca, she recounts seeing mostly white men and boys practicing the sport. Finally, after enduring racial microaggressions, not being able to make friends, and feeling out of place, she gave it up at age 12. “I didn’t feel like a surfer because I didn't fit the stereotype,” she writes.
The historical importance of her book lies not only in her choice of subject, but also in its snapshot of surfing culture at a turning point in time. In recent years, the visual narrative has very slowly shifted from the global hyper-commercialization of the sport—which is
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