Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, the British photographer, model, and writer Laura Bailey loved sports—she ran track and cross-country, tackled mountain-climbing, and watched Wimbledon religiously, a rite of English summers. While Bailey immersed herself in the world of athletics, the Maltese-British photographer Mark Arrigo obsessed over landscapes. Lulling hills and dramatic seascapes were, for him, a form of meditation.
A project on tennis courts seemed a natural place for the two photographers and longtime collaborators to intersect. Bailey approached Arrigo with an idea: What if they worked on a book about tennis courts together—not just show courts but dilapidated community ones as well?
