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Weird Sports

Photographer Sol Neelman

Text by Brandy Rettig

Edited by Mike Davies

Published by: Kehrer Verlag

Imprint: Kehrer Verlag

112 Pages, 11.80 x 9.38 in

Hardcover
9783868282191
Published: April 2012

$45.00

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Nearly everyone has an attachment to some form of sport. I hope that my use of the term weird is not taken out of context or considered derogatory. To me, it’s about being unique and visionary

Whether it’s urban golf, cardboard tube fighting, Godzilla wrestling, lingerie football, Segway polo, or drag queen softball, this body of work documents events you will not find in the sports section of the local newspaper. Over the past five years, Sol Neelman has been traveling around the world seeking out the weird and wacky in sports.

Sol Neelman is a failed athlete turned successful sports photographer.

Sol Neelman (b.1970) is surely one of the most unusual sports photographers in America: the failed athlete turned sports photographer has a passion for offbeat sports people play in their spare time, which he subsumes them under the blanket label "Weird Sports." After a decade as a newspaper staff photographer, he went freelance, which has given him the freedom to pursue his lifelong photo project on sports culture around the world.

Neelman lives in his hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Brandy Rettig aka Rettig to Rumble is a roller derby player.Her resume includes being on the 2007 WFTDA western regional championship team (with Rat City), finishing 2nd at the WFTDA national championships (2007 with Rat City and again in 2010 with the Oly Rollers) and captaining her Grave Danger team to the 2007 Rat City Rollergirls league championship.

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