What They Say... (Page 2)

"In portraits and candid shots, of pros and amateurs and youngsters who can’t even reach the speed bag, Lommasson reveals not just the grit and toil of a disappearing world, but also an unexpected sense of community and even of sanctuary. While Shadow Boxers never blinks at the toughness, it does take the reader straight to the heart."
-- Sports Illustrated

“As real and as honest and as raw as the paint peeling from the walls.”
-- Inara Verzemnieks, The Oregonian

"It is those battles and those dreams that Shadow Boxers captures in a triumphal procession of words and pictures such as no Roman emperor ever dreamed of. This is a book truly for those with a reverence for the traditions of the sport.
-- Bert Sugar, “The Greatest Boxing Writer of All Time.”

"Jim Lommasson captures the insides of America’s urban boxing gyms and low-level training grounds the way Ansel Adams tackled Yosemite. .... perhaps the best sports pictorial of the year."
-– Chris Sprow, The Chicago Sports Review

"Lommasson — who grew up hearing fight stories from his father, an amateur boxer — spent 10 years photographing gyms across America. "The fighters became human," he says, "and then they became my friends."
-- The New York Times Sunday Magazine