HELLCATS/ REBIRTH

Roller Derby team Hallam Hellcats are the embodiment of strength, power and team spirit in this highly competitive contact sport. Revisiting the Hellcats several times, with a question of how to photograph women’s bodies to represent what they do rather than how they look, and also considering how to make images of action sports without interrupting play in a manner that transcended the action and spoke to the underlying purpose of my enquiry.

In this first series, I photographed the 10th anniversary competition against Manchester club, the Valkyries in Sheffield, November ‘22.