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Synchronized swimmers begin a performance at the pool in Sun City, Arizona.Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME by [TIME Photo Department](https://time.com/author/time-photo-department/) ## TIME Photo Department Apr 15, 2011 11:00 AM UTC For [Catherine Mayer’s story](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2065156,00.html) about amortality—the idea of living agelessly—TIME commissioned Kendrick Brinson to visit Cenegenics, an age management practice in Las Vegas, and spend the weekend with residents in retirement communities Sun City, AZ and Sun City Shadow Hills, CA . South Carolina-native Brinson was a natural fit for the assignment. She already has her own ‘fixer’ in Sun City, having spent the past year working on her own series there—a project she hit upon after catching a glimpse of the city on screen in _The Savages._ “I began researching,” says Brinson, “and the minute I found out that they had a cheer leading squad made up of 70-year-old women, I thought, ‘I’m there!'” Brinson’s fixer, Bill—and the cheer leaders—are residents of the adults-only retirement community built on a former cotton field, near Phoenix, which bars homeowners below age 55\. Grandchildren under 18 are limited to visits of no more than three months per year. (You may object, but as Brinson points out, “if you don’t see 6-year-olds running around, then you don’t think you’re 55”). The community, built by [Del Webb](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896473,00.html), a friend of Howard Hughes and builder of Las Vegas’s Sahara resort with gangster Bugsy Siegel, was an immediate hit with the [fast-growing over-65 set](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896472,00.html) when it opened in 1960\. Cars were backed up for miles, with 100,000 prospective buyers crowding into the model homes the first weekend, eager to stake their claim. Having visited Sun City, Arizona four times—struggling, at 28 years-old, to keep up with the rounds of lawn bowling, tap dancing, tennis and movies—Brinson thought that her fifth, for TIME, would be her last. “I felt I got everything,” says Brinson, “and I would just be re-shooting the same things.” But then she found the Aqua Suns, a synchronized swimming group, “and I realized I couldn’t say good-bye to the project.” Both Sun Citys have an air of energy and excitement. “Its pretty much spring break there every day,” says Brinson. “One man told me it was like recess. He loved waking up every morning because he was choosing what he _wanted_ to do, not what he _had_ to do” For TIME, Brinson hung out with Patti Wolff in California—that Sun City is smaller than the original, and being newer, skews a little younger. (Wolff emphasized no one sat around playing cards in her group). “I felt like I was out with my best friends,” says Brinson talking about a late-night casino jaunt with Wolff. Age fell away until talk of widowhood and children come up. “Then I was reminded,” says Brinson. “I have so much more living to do. Living that they’ve already done.” At Sun City, bustling with 11 golf courses and 130 official recreational clubs—“the largest concentration in America”—you don’t notice that the average resident is 73, says Brinson, until you see that softball rules prevent sliding into base or there’s a sachet of Metamucil sticking out of a sneaker. “They turn the stereotype of aging on its head,” says Brinson. “They’re all blogging and on Facebook.” Her time at Cenegenics offices—where affluent patients work on maintaining their youth following a regiment of supplements and exercise—the photographer was aware that “they were spending time trying to work out and look good. In Sun City they were less interested in how they looked—they’re just enjoying life,” says Brinson. “I guess one is more striving to be young externally, and the other more internally.” Where is she headed when the wrinkles start? “I think.” says Brinson, “I’d choose Sun City.” Brinson’s _Sun City: Life After Life_ will be on exhibit at the [Houston Center for Photography](http://www.hcponline.org/pages/home.asp), May 6 through June 19\. She’s also working on self-publishing a limited-edition book. You can see more of Brinson’s work at [Luceo Images](http://luceoimages.com/photographers/kendrick-brinson/). —By Deirdre van Dyk  Synchronized swimmers begin a performance at the pool in Sun City, Arizona. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  Dr. Jeffry Life after a morning workout in his Las Vegas, Nevada office, on April 4, 2011\. Dr. Life is 72 and has been a patient of Cenegenics, an age management practice, since 2003. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  A placard in the office of Dr. Jeffery life showing before and after photos of himself prior to his being a patient at Cenegenics. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  The kitchen in one of the original model homes, which is now the Del Webb Sun Cities Museum, in Sun City, Arizona. The display shows what it looked like on its opening day on January 1, 1960\. Sun City, Arizona is the United States' first planned retirement city. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Bill Pearson, 62, with his standard poodle Phoenix stands outside of his home in Sun City, Arizona. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Sun City teams at a softball game, in Indio, California on April 1, 2011\. Both teams are made up of retirees 55 and older. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  A flock of decorative geese in Faye Pitts' garden. Sun City Arizona, August 26, 2010. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Herme Sherry, Ms. Senior Arizona 2004, walks outside of the Sundial Recreation Center following the Sun City Parade in Sun City, Arizona on March 13, 2010. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Various club members await their chance to join the Sun City Parade in Sun City, Arizona March 13, 2010. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Swim Relays for the Arizona Senior Olympics take place at the Bell Recreation Center pool in Sun City, Arizona March 14, 2010. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  A resident raises the flag at the Bell Recreation Center pool in Sun City, Arizona March 14, 2010. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Birds in an orange tree. Sun City, Arizona December 11, 2011. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  The Sun City Poms, aged 61-78, perform a routine for a crowd in Talisman Hall on December 12, 2009\. Their routine includes an announcement that one is "never too old to perform and expand your horizons." Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  A woman swims laps in a pool at Sun City, Palm Desert on April 1, 2011. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  Elva McKittrick turned 110 in December, 2010\. She lives at Royal Oaks, a community within Sun City. Alice Davis, a Sun City volunteer spends lots of time with Elva. Elva is Sun City's oldest resident, though there are more than a dozen residents who live in Royal Oaks that are 100 or older. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo for TIME  Theresa Gottardo shops in WalGreens with her dog Snoopy in Sun City, Arizona August 24, 2010. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Chairs await the mourners of Arthur Scheffelman before his funeral at the Sunland Memorial Park in Sun City, Arizona on December 14, 2009. Kendrick Brinson—Luceo  Resident release balloons at the memorial service for Monte Haag, a resident of Sun City, Arizona, who died last year while piloting an ultralight plane. 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