Taking us on a chaotic and crazy journey, photographer Sol Neelman delves into a world full of weird things such as ostrich racing and lingerie basketball in his bizarre sports photo series.
The Portland-based photographer proves just how weird we can be in his new ‘Weird Sports 2’ series, which is the photographer's second series depicting bizarre and funny oddball sports events.
The sports photo series had Neelman photographing numerous sporting events all over the place to be able to put his latest series together, which includes everything from chuckwagon racing, to lightsaber fencing to live monster wrestling to jumping frog jubilee’s.
Neelman was running a Kickstarter campaign to help him fund this second volume.
Unusual Sports Photography
This Sports Photo Series is Both Bizarre and Interesting
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