New York Marathon in Images - Race Day: 150 Photographs to Experience the World's Most Popular Running Race Through the Eyes of a Runner (Italian Edition)

Race Day recounts the TCS NYC Marathon through the eyes and lens of a runner: 150 photographs to experience from the inside one of the most famous competitions in the world, in every step and in the fantastic setting of New York City.

In October 2019, as I was preparing to complete my seventh participation in the New York Marathon, I got injured. Nothing too serious, but enough to compromise my attempt to improve in the race that awaited me just two weeks later. Months of preparation seemed so lost. And even the possibility of completing the competition appeared optimistic if I had pushed the race pace too hard.

After a few hours of bitter disappointment, however, everything suddenly "connected." I couldn't run as I wanted. But maybe I could, finally, manage to tell the story of the NYC Marathon in a reportage. Running and photographing it without being forced to steal shots from the sidelines of the event.

Compared to my first photographic approach to the race, this time, I also had all the right "ingredients": I had become an experienced marathon runner, I was registered for the competition, I knew the course and its peculiarities very well, I had experienced the various pre- and post-race phases several times, and, injury aside, I was trained to reach the finish line "calmly."

As if that wasn't enough, for some time I had started spending several months a year in New York, which had become, in fact, my second city, and, last but not least, also in 2019 I had tackled the writing of an entire guide dedicated to the New York Marathon (The Endless Run), for which reason I had studied the entire race in depth and walked, for hours, along the competition route.

In short, I was the "perfect culprit." I had everything: motive, preparation, opportunity. I really had no excuses. I had to try. I had to try to tell the story of one of the most incredible sporting events that exist, while being a part of it.

So on the morning of November 3, 2019, I faced the TCS NYC Marathon like never before. With a completely different goal. And it's not just a play on words.

For the first time, the goal was not to complete the race in the desired time but to tell the whole day that awaited me. Taking all the time I needed. Consciously violating all the usual pre-race advice and truly forgetting about the Garmin and the passing time. Hoping only that my legs would hold up and that the injury would still allow me to reach the finish line.

So I set out armed with two iPhones (one in hand, the other locked in a fanny pack that framed and shot automatically behind me), a detailed plan of the moments I would have to tell, and a clear idea of what I wanted to photograph and where.

The result of this work is Race Day. It is the fruit of one of the most incredible, intense, exciting, and fun days of my life. Of a moment when some of my greatest passions, magically, aligned and coexisted in total harmony.

Lorenzo Maria dell'Uva Born in Naples, he lives between Bologna and Brooklyn. In 2008 he discovered running and marathon completely by chance, but he has never let go since then. He has always worked in the field of digital technologies. Lorenzo is a journalist, runner, photographer, entrepreneur, startup founder, and traveler (not necessarily in that order). He has run the TCS NYC Marathon nine times so far and, of course, dreams of becoming a "15+ Marathoner."

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