
Al Bello Has Been Photographing Sports for the Last 26 Years
And he's just getting started
This summer alone Al Bello photographed the Belmont Stakes, the Olympics, the U.S. Open, and the Baseball playoffs
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And he's just getting started
This summer alone Al Bello photographed the Belmont Stakes, the Olympics, the U.S. Open, and the Baseball playoffs
The Photo Brigade presents a special Olympic sports photography panel featuring sports shooter veterans who have collectively shot dozens of Olympic Games over the years.
The Photo Brigade presents a special Olympic sports photography panel featuring sports shooter veterans who have collectively shot dozens of Olympic Games over the years. Gary Hershorn(Reuters/freelance), Julie Jacobson (Associated Press), Al Bello (Getty Sport), and Robert Deutsch (USA TODAY) talk with moderator Steve Fine (SI/NYT/Flipboard) about past experiences in covering previous games and what they think about the upcoming games Rio from a technology perspective, news perspective and sports perspective.
Photographer Paolo Marchetti has won Reportage Photographer of the Year in the 73rd annual Picture of the Year International competition. His portfolio, selected as the winner over the weekend, includes stories about exploited and abused children around t
Photographer Paolo Marchetti has won Reportage Photographer of the Year in the 73rd annual Picture of the Year International competition
On this episode, Robert chats with Al Bello, who’s been a staff sports photographer with Getty Images for over two decades.
On top of being one of the greatest sports photographers, Al is one of the nicest photographers you could ever meet in our industry
Of this whole cool scene, my favorite moment was when we were all taking cellphone pictures at the same time of the divers entering the water. I was thinking - "I'm taking cellphone pictures with Kluetmeier and Burnett, how cool is that!"
Sports photographers who shoot underwater spend an extended time at the bottom of the pool, hoping to capture Olympic history.
A camera rests three meters down, its lens protected by a clear glass dome the size of mixing bowl. Al Bello, a 44-year-old Brooklyn native and an award-winning photographer for Getty Images, placed it there a week ago.