bill picket rodeo 2024
On a beautiful summer day in Castro Valley, Calif., the Bill Picket Invitational Rodeo celebrated their 40th year to a crowd of Bay Area spectators. This rodeo is the first Black touring rodeo, but there’s an even longer history of Black cowboys and girls in the United States, and the rodeo both celebrates this and gives riders the opportunity to compete on the national stage.
Photographed for the SF Standard, this was such a fun, wild, exhilarating day, that brought together my love for sport and culture.
