Tag: Rich Clarkson

  • Rich Clarkson: Life behind the lens | Plog

    Link: For seven decades Rich Clarkson has had a front row seat to sporting history and through his eyes–or more precisely, through his camera lens–he has shaped the way the rest of us remember many of the game’s greatest moments. Clarkson has photographed all the greats. His photos have appeared on the cover of Sports…

  • Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson

    Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson

    via NPPA: one of the media coordinators came over to me saying, “Your strobe exploded and this stuff is falling on all those people behind you!  What should we do?” Everyone in those stands was watching us, and I said, “Don’t look up!”  I think he had come to tell me to stop using the…

  • 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 – 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…

  • Story Behind the Image: The Best Time to be a Photographer is Right Now

    Story Behind the Image: The Best Time to be a Photographer is Right Now

    Story Behind the Image: The Best Time to be a Photographer is Right Now Today David Lama is one of the most successful professional climbers in Europe. But at age 19, his climbing career almost ended before it even began. In via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/11/06/story-behind-image-best-time-photographer-right-now/ Rich Clarkson: “Let me just make something real clear guys,” he…

  • New Guide: Growing Your Sports Photography Business

    New Guide: Growing Your Sports Photography Business

    New Guide: Growing Your Sports Photography Business – PhotoShelter Blog In our latest free guide, Growing Your Sports Photography Business, we offer an in-depth look at the sports photography industry today. This comprehensive guide includes insider advice from sports photography veterans like Rich Clarkson, Brad Mangin, and via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/07/new-guide-growing-your-sports-photography-business/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 In our latest free guide,…

  • Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson / Part 2

    Photo Journal: Rich Clarkson / Part 2 Part Two: The Clarkson MachineBy Jim ColtonJim Colton:You’ve had a remarkable career in photojournalism. Can you tell our readers how you first got interested in photography? Where did you get your first break? via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/52422 What I tell all aspiring photographers is: Observe…and shut up!  You can’t…

  • Rich Clarkson – What should photographers know?

    Link: The Photo Society let me tell you personally how I have always hired people — whether for a staff position or a single assignment. Bob Gilka used to say that I was the best “discoverer” of new talent in the country. To me, it was always simple for the best people were easy to…

  • Lucie Awards Honor Lifetime Achievements

    Lucie Awards Honor Lifetime Achievements | PDNPulse Eli Reed, Bill Eppridge, Dawoud Bey and Rich Clarkson were among the veteran photographers honored for their contributions to photography at the 2011 Lucie Awards, held October 24 in New York City. In accepting the award for Achievement in Photojournalism via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/10/lucie-awards-honor-lifetime-achievements.html Eli Reed, Bill Eppridge, Dawoud…

  • Eli Reed, Rich Clarkson, Bill Eppridge Receive 2011 Lucie Awards

    IPA: The International Photography Awards (IPA) competition, a sister effort of the Lucie Foundation, is proud to announce its 2011 finalists, who were selected by an international jury panel of photography professionals.  Three of the 21 finalists will be named Photographer of the Year, Discovery of the Year, and Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year,…