Ballpark Documentary: Bull City Summer

Kate Joyce

Our team, ballpark, fans and neighborhood are the subject of a documentary, but you won't find it on Netflix or DVD. Life in and around the DBAP is being documented by a cadre of still photographers and writers during the 2013 season.

As the season unfolds their work will appear on the web - at wral.com, Paris Review Daily and bullcitysummer.org. Next year, it will reappear as a book (by Daylight) and photography exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art. 

The project was imagined and organized by local documentarian and baseball fan Sam Stephenson. A key underwriter is Triangle Orthopaedics Associates. Read our news release.

Three highly acclaimed photographers are participating in Bull City Summer - Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas and Hiroshi Watanable.

Soth was here for the Bulls first home stand. Take note of his old school camera. The image is captured on an 8 x 10 negative plate. This is the antithesis of point and shoot photography, and he creates images unlike anything you will snap with your iPhone.

Read this week's post at the Paris Review Daily, and visit the BCS website.