The Race of Gentlemen

If you're an avid Cool Material reader, you're familiar with The Race of Gentlemen, an event held every year in Wildwood, New Jersey, in which guys and gals don old-timey outfits and race vintage bikes and cars up and down the beach. It's a sight to behold. If you've never been lucky…

The Race of Gentlemen is an event that just begs to be shot on film. The antique machines and old school style make lugging around an antique camera feel not only natural, but necessary. Deciding to shoot film gave me a chance to break from the fast-paced action of TROG, meter the light,…

For one day a year, for the last five years, a large swath of beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, is void of beach chairs, umbrellas, and shockingly hairy men in shockingly small bathing suits. In their place (thankfully) are pre-war hot rods, vintage motorcycles, and racers from all over the…