Category: Sports
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Traveling through Canada covering the Women’s World Cup
Traveling through Canada covering the Women’s World Cup ‘My travels took me to Winnipeg, Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal and back to Vancouver. I learned when I was in Montreal that five years of my life studying French did not help!’
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SPORTS SHOOTER Q & A
SPORTS SHOOTER Q & A Brad Mangin talks baseball and his new book ‘Championship Blood’
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Shooting the Stanley Cup Finals with Photojournalist Dirk Shadd
Shooting the Stanley Cup Finals with Photojournalist Dirk Shadd Here’s a 2-minute behind-the-scenes video by Monica Herndon that shows how photojournalist Dirk Shadd of the Tampa Bay Times photographs the Tampa Bay via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/11/shooting-the-stanley-cup-finals-with-photojournalist-dirk-shadd/ Here’s a 2-minute behind-the-scenes video by Monica Herndon that shows how photojournalist Dirk Shadd of the Tampa Bay Times photographs…
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Tour de France Along the Road | AP Images Blog
Tour de France Along the Road On the passenger seat of a press motorbike, Cipriani started shooting fans in 2013, when Tour organizers celebrated the 100th edition of the race. His purpose was to draw a “portrait of France” through fans from all origins who have contributed to make the Tour not only one of…
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English Soccer Club Sets Up Tight Defense, but This One Repels Journalists – The New York Times
English Club Shuts Out Journalists With New Kind of Defense In a move that reflects a shifting media landscape, Swindon Town F.C. has largely barred reporters from interviewing players and coaches, and it plans to provide its own content. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/sports/soccer/english-soccer-club-sets-up-tight-defense-but-this-one-repels-journalists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Lee Power, the Swindon owner, who put the policy in place, acknowledged the irony…
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Full Bleed: Bowling Is a Purgatorial Pastime | VICE | United States
Bowling Alleys Are American Pockets of Purgatory It’s a sport/game/leisure activity so simple that I always feel vaguely self-conscious actually explaining it out loud: “Well, you, um, try to knock down pins with a ball.” via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/full-bleed-0000723-v22n8 It’s a “pastime” in the truest sense of the word in that only a species with so…
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The Greedy Photographer — Vantage — Medium
The Greedy Photographer Gluttonous, fun, weird. Welcome to Sol Neelman’s world via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-greedy-photographer-427a54ca01c0 Gorging on fun in photography is good for business and good for the soul
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Randy Johnson’s Viewfinder Points to the Hall, and Beyond – NYTimes.com
Randy Johnson’s Viewfinder Points to the Hall, and Beyond Johnson, who will enter the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, has spent his retirement photographing subjects in locales like Botswana and Guantánamo Bay. Link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/sports/randy-johnson-bound-for-cooperstown-has-changed-his-focus.html He was the last pitcher to earn 300 victories. His five Cy Young Awards are second only to Roger Clemens,…
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Mônica Imbuzeiro – Faces of Victory | LensCulture
Faces of Victory – Photographs by Mônica Imbuzeiro | LensCulture Taken the moment amateur athletes cross the finish line of the marathon in Rio de Janeiro — these photos evoke the elation, thrill and exhaustion of pushing oneself to accomplish an extremely challenging goal via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/monica-imbuzeiro-faces-of-victory Elation, exhaustion, the thrill of victory and extreme…
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Grayson West Photography — Tour de France Stage 5, 189.5km Arras Communauté…
Grayson West Photography Tour de France Stage 5, 189.5km Arras Communauté Urbaine to Amiens Métropole, France. Le Tour’s travel through the Hell of the North was wet, windy and wild. Several crashes plagued the peloton, with… via Grayson West Photography: http://pushingthebuttons.tumblr.com/post/123579224496/tour-de-france-stage-5-189-5km-arras-communaute The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 received thousands of entries from photographers all over…
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Paolo Pellizzari’s Panoramic View of the World of Sports | American Photo
Paolo Pellizzari’s Panoramic View of the World of Sports “This isn’t conventional sports photography,” explained Pellizzari in an interview conducted via email. Rather than focusing on the athlete(s), this Italian-born Belgium resident has “opted for a wider view like a stage play. It allows each aspect [of a sporting event] to be examined: the competitors…
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get ready to rumble | anthony “rumble” johnson for espn the mag | Redlights and Redeyes
get ready to rumble Always fun when an photo editor emails you and asks if you can take a punch. I don’t. I do, however, know how to curl up into a ball and cry, which is what would happen if I did actually step into the ring with this guy. MMA fighter Anthony “Rumble”…
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auto focus | the player’s tribune | Redlights and Redeyes
auto focus I’ve never shot IndyCar before this shoot for the fine folks at The Player’s Tribune, but what I learned in a couple days of running around the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg reaffirmed everything I thought it would be from covering other racing: it’s extremely loud, painfully hot, but so much fun…
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Hoop dreams: A photographer’s 60-year archive of NCAA Championship tournaments – The Washington Post
Hoop dreams: A photographer’s 60-year archive of NCAA Championship tournaments After 60 years photographing college basketball, famed sports photographer snaps his last NCAA championship. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/03/30/hoop-dreams-a-photographers-60-year-archive-of-ncaa-championship-tournaments/ Rich Clarkson has been photographing the NCAA Championships for six decades. Clarkson’s work is a catalog of some on the single greatest athletes and coaches to ever emerge…
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Underground Wrestling in Moscow – NYTimes.com
Underground Wrestling in Moscow Far from the pageantry and money of American pro wrestling, Russian grapplers exist in the shadows, where the bad guys wear red, white and blue. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/underground-wrestling-in-moscow/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog “In Russia, wrestling is considered cruel — and Western,” said Pavel Volkov, a photographer. “Convincing landlords is not an easy sell.” His…
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The New West With the Wright Brothers – NYTimes.com
The New West With the Wright Brothers Teenagers Rusty and Ryder Wright are the youngest generation of champions from a Utah family that has dominated the classic rodeo event of saddle-bronc riding. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/the-new-west-with-the-wright-family/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog The New York Times spent a year following three generations of Wrights through the seasons of rodeo and ranching.…
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Photographer Takes Us Inside the Buildings of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
Photographer Takes Us Inside the Buildings of the 1980 Moscow Olympics – Feature Shoot For St. Petersburg born photographer Anastasia Tsayder, moving to Moscow came as a shock. Accustomed to the classical architecture of the 19th century, she was surprised to now be surrounded by Soviet style buildings of the late 70’s. She took an…
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Forgotten Victories – The New Yorker
Forgotten Victories The Ukrainian photographer made collages that evoke Soviet-era fitness-training programs. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/forgotten-victories-soviet-era-sports The Ukrainian photographer Andrey Lomakin began his project “Forgotten Victories” in the fall of 2013, after the Ukrainian magazine My Sports, where he had worked as a photo editor and photographer, ceased publication. While emptying his office, Lomakin found…
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Behind the Scenes at the Australian Open | AP Images Blog
Behind the Scenes at the Australian Open In the film days a photographer might shoot between 10 and 15 rolls a day or a maximum of 550 images. Now, photographers will shoot from 2,000 to 2,500 frames a day. Multiply that by five staffers over 14 days and I was casting my eyes over more…
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Keepers of the Streak: A Film About the 4 Guys Who Have Photographed Every Super Bowl
Keepers of the Streak: A Film About the 4 Guys Who Have Photographed Every Super Bowl Countless photographs have been captured by numerous photographers over the course of Super Bowl history, but only four photographers have covered all 48 via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/27/keepers-streak-film-4-guys-photographed-every-super-bowl/ Countless photographs have been captured by numerous photographers over the course of Super…