'I was trying to find the beauty in life and the beauty in the smallest things. Photography became my new outlet of seeing the world in a positive way.”
There are people who spend years in school learning the art of working a camera, and then there's Jordan Jimenez — completely self-taught off his mom's old Nikon and one photography book for dummies.
"Just like every other kid, I just wanted to go to the NBA, which is, you know, such a silly, silly dream," Jimenez, who goes byBeing a part of his local basketball community meant everything to the now 25-year-old. Through basketball, he met his best friends and found an outlet to cope with his depression. So, when Jimenez got injured playing sports in high school, his whole world came crashing down.
Then, during his senior year of high school, Jimenez started taking pictures. He'd venture to San Francisco, where he and his friends would climb on rooftops to capture different vantage points of the city. Then, by chance, while at the Unlimited Potential Basketball training facility in Burlingame, California, Jimenez met Jordan Poole, at the time a newly drafted Warriors guard.
"To be able to be in a locker room and be able to photograph the championships, the biggest moment of these guys' lives, it was such a surreal feeling. I play a little bit of a role in telling their story and documenting history," he adds. "If I look at it, and I’m like, 'Damn, that’s a good photo,' that’s kind of all it is," he says."It’s not ever too analytical in the sense of, 'This is good or bad,' but it’s like, how did the photo make you ... look at the world?"
Photography, especially in the basketball, has also given Jimenez a platform to represent his Filipino culture in spaces where he says not many people look like him.
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