Juxtapoz Magazine – I Just Wanna Surf: Gabriella Angotti-Jones Documents Black Women Surfers
Gabriella Angotti-Jones’s I Just Wanna Surf captures the friction of getting one’s identity and community all through the pandemic and submit-George Floyd era in a sport dominated by white guys. Escalating up in one of the only mixed-race Black families in a compact Orange County seaside town, Angotti-Jones displays on how her early marriage with the ocean and Californian surf lifestyle turned intertwined with her id as a Black lady.
In a combine of picture book, zine, and diary, Angotti-Jones issues the traditional browsing narrative by documenting Black girls and non-binary surfers living the browsing way of life influenced by 1990s and early 2000s surf lifestyle, while generating it their possess. The photos juxtapose the pleasure of friendship and the refuge uncovered in the the ocean’s wilderness with the underlying racial tensions at the core of the Black American experience. With sensitivity and vulnerability, her textual content explores her knowledge with despair and the perception of peace brought by riding waves.
Revealed by Mass Publications, I Just Wanna Surf is a joyous, uncooked, advanced and exceptional expansion of the visual record of the Black American working experience and its position in a promptly modifying American surf neighborhood.