While I was living in Split, Croatia, my friend Helena Lovrić and I stumbled upon a group of ladies playing the sport of bocce. In Croatia, bocce is not a sport that women play and so we felt inclined to talk to them and ask what the story was. It turns out that these sixty-something women have started a sort of feminist movement doing weekly activities typically reserved for men!
Helena is a journalist, and thankfully I had my camera on me, so while she recorded interviews with the women using her phone as a recording device, I practiced my photography. By the end, I nabbed some nice portraits and Helena had a great story to give to her editor. Both were recently published and you can read the article and see the photos I took here; note that Helena’s article is written in Croatian but you can use your browser’s translate function in order to generate a roughly-translated version.
Additionally, I added a gallery on this site to showcase these bocce ladies — you can find it here.
Finally, in the case that the original article disappears from the source site, I have appended a screen capture of it, below. Thank you to Helena for the opportunity to showcase my hobby in a professional context.
