MARK BRODIE: Sun City takes up a little less than 15 square miles in the West Valley, and as of the last census in 2020, had almost 40,000 residents. None of those residents are allowed to be younger than 19. At least one person in each household has to be at least 55 years old.
A new book takes a different look at Sun City and the people who live there. “Sun City: A Love Letter to the Golden Years” is full of photos of the community and its residents. Kendrick Brinson is an Atlanta-based photojournalist and the book’s author. She joins me to talk more about it, and Kendrick, you visited Sun City for more than a decade. How did you first start going there and meeting residents?
KENDRICK BRINSON: Yes, it was kind of by accident. I had just left my last full-time staff newspaper job, and I knew that I wanted to start some kind of project that would be long-term that I could work on, you know, between other assignments for magazines and newspapers. And I was watching a movie, and the first like 10 minutes of the movie, there was a couple of scenes in Sun City…