sport photography Feb 2017

Alexander Rhind’s powerful, cinematic style has led him to shoot stills and moving image campaigns for sportswear’s leading innovative brands, including Adidas and Rapha.

Alexander is a pro at handling the fast-paced, high-energy requirements of large productions. At the same time, his calm and personable nature helps him to capture revealing portraits of elite athletes in intimate settings.

A versatile artist, Alexander is known for treading the line between shooting slick, perfectly lit and choreographed action shots through to documenting the grit and sweat of sports on location, photographing sportsmen and women pushing themselves to the limit in epic landscapes.

Alexander Rhind is represented by Swerve Represents.

Ashley Lewis strives to tell stories and create images that inspire people to train harder, run faster and become better. As one of 23 hand selected photographers that capture real-time ‘Just Do It’ moments, Ashley represents England, solving the need for consistent, premium and global content for Nike’s Instagram channels.

Ashley has had nine images posted to the @Nike Instagram channel totalling 2.9 million ‘likes’. He had the privilege to shoot the launch of the @NikeLondon Instagram channel and more recently the launch of Virgin Sport. Ashley has worked with many athletes including Roger Federer, Romelu Lukaku, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Katarina Johnson-Thompson to name a few.

Recent sporting clients include Nike, Air Jordan, Liverpool FC, Virgin Sport, Odlo and Red Bull. His campaigns have been used online, in print, social media and in store.

See more of Ashley’s work with the Nike Photo Collective here, or view some of his recent projects here.

Iri Greco came of age in the 1980s New York art and punk scene, but longed for the wild. Jim Fryer grew up in laid-back southern California but found passion and intensity as a professional bike racer.

As a team, they bring out each other’s best traits: big thinking, spontaneity, pragmatism, authenticity, and balance. Together, Iri and Jim create serious visuals without taking ourselves too seriously.

Together, they are BrakeThrough Media, New York and San Francisco-based editorial and commercial photographers with a collective aesthetic. It specialises in sports and fitness, and active lifestyle content. From mountaintops in France to the Kona coastline, from the piers in Brooklyn to Bay Area headlands, the duo shoots everything and everywhere. Some of the clients it serves include Oakley, Specialized Bicycles, CLIF Bar, Polar, Speedo, Outside, Bicycling, and Women’s Health.

"Our clients are our aesthetic currency. We build relationships not transactions. Collaboration is our keystone. We pay attention.

Our work is bold and nuanced, raw yet refined. We cultivate a documentary style with an inclusive emotional appeal. We seek out the perfect moment—whether candid or crafted. We are storytellers. We strive to capture, hold, and move the audience while never being commonplace. We smash ordinary.

We brake through."

With a huge passion for sports, the dedication and relentless pursuit of excellence of elite level athletes greatly inspires Duncan Nicholls.

Also specialising in emotive portraits and landscapes, he has worked worldwide with clients such as Nike, New Balance, North Face and Lacoste. 

The positivity and calmness Duncan brings to every set, creates an environment for everyone to enjoy delivering their best work.  Whether it's an Olympic Gold Medalist or someone who is rarely in front of the camera, he has great strength in getting the best out of people in often time-restricted environments.

Creating new images and delivering for his clients is the biggest rush and privilege for Duncan, and he is humbled by the wonderful experiences his career continues to provide.

Fredrik was once again commissioned by adidas to work with their creative team on their new football campaign, shooting on location in Germany. Fredrik has also teamed up with German retailer Sportscheck in the creation of the brand's new visual identity, shooting in Berlin and, more recently, shooting stills and motion in South Africa.

Fredrik Clement shoots premium sports images in a reportage style, capturing the moment and the unfiltered emotions. He works worldwide for clients such as adidas, Red Bull, BMW and The North Face, to name a few.

Fredrik is represented by Take Agency in the EU, Stem Agency in the UK, and Josette Lata in the US.

Larry Rostant is a commercial and editorial photographer based in London and specialising in sport and portraiture.

He has an eye-catching photographic style, which is always in demand from clients requiring bold and dynamic imagery.

His distinctive and creative use of lighting and colour, brings out the drama and beauty in every subject. His work is both contemporary and commercial and all delivered within a relaxed and enjoyable studio atmosphere.

Larry has shot a wide variety of artists in the sports, music and celebrity world such as Ben Stokes, David Weir, Norman Cook and the legendary Dame Edna. His work continues to receive critical acclaim both in the UK and internationally.

To keep up to date with his latest work, follow Larry on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Manfred Heiduk is based in Dusseldorf and travels constantly to Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Cape Town and London. Manfred spent many years as an illustrator and creative director in digital media, and with more than 20 years of experience in photography he is specialised in shooting in extreme conditions.

For Karstadt Sports he shot in the Italian Alps, Austrian Glaciers, Mojave Desert and Death Valley. He is continually booked for running, biking, ski and fashion productions.

Manfred mostly works on dramatic and exciting locations. His focus is on people, lifestyle and sports photography, always offering the best results to his clients.

Offering full service international photo and video productions, his clients include Adidas, Puma, Nike, Sportarena, FIFA, Sidestep, Runners Point, C&A, Kaufhof, Boecker, Deichmann and Metro Group.

Mead Norton has spent his lifetime outside and loves nothing more than getting dirty in wild and remote places and dragging his camera along to capture the action. He studied at Brooks Institute and received a Masters of Science in Photography. So no matter what kind of technical challenge he is given, he has the knowledge to capture the image in even the most testing conditions.

Mead now works with a wide range of clients and agencies both in New Zealand and abroad to create dynamic portraits, lifestyle and action images for commercial and editorial clients. He knows how to work well in a team environment, which comes in handy when spending a long day outside or going on an extended trip into the backcountry with a crew. And because he is a perfectionist, he always strives to deliver above and beyond what is expected by his clients.

Clients include Pivot Bikes, Adventure Racing World Series, Ironman NZ, Fineline Creative Agency, Zerode Bikes, Destination New South Wales, Destination Rotorua and CEP Compression Apparel, among others. He normally shoots on location but is also comfortable in a studio.

Mead is also an official Getty Photographer.

Born and raised in Southern California, Michael Scott Slosar took his first photography course in 7th grade and didn't stop there. After attending Northern Arizona University and Brooks Institute of Photography, he moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2002 to pursue his career.

Michael loves to travel and be on the go, and gets restless if he stays in one place for too long. This is why he currently splits his time between NY and CA.

Michael wishes the world was still film and Polaroid and believes film is the new vinyl. He loves anything vintage, "classic", and/or antique and never misses a good BBQ!

His clients include Toyota, Lacoste, British GQ, Playboy, Sony Records, Ed Hardy, Zoo York, Puma, Asics, Honda, Acura, Time Out Magazine, Italian Vogue-Black, Procter & Gamble, Bridgestone, Hollister and Abercrombie.

Funny, he doesn’t look like a particle accelerator. But that’s how Pier Nicola D’Amico describes himself. “I’m interested in collision, in smashing atoms together and seeing what happens.”

Or you could call him a mischievous provocateur, the man who delights in watching what happens when music, light and video are slammed together with no place to go but a 100-foot wall.

Either way, you have Nic - a photographer, DP, director, entrepreneur, and founder of Klip Collective and Monogram film and motion boutique. The combination of his creativity and collaborative spirit have as earned him national print campaigns for iconic brands including Nike, Levi’s, Ford, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Burton, And1, AT&T, InBev, Pepsi and Adidas.

Pim Ras was born in Rotterdam and knew as an eight-year-old child what his professional destination in life would be; to become a sports photographer like the photographers he saw when he accompanied his father to the Feyenoord football stadium de Kuip.

At the age of 16 Pim's dream came true when he was asked to become the photographer of Ajax Amsterdam. There he met the big names in Dutch sports photography at that time. In 1988, he joined the agency of cycling photographer Cor Vos. He also began working for the second largest newspaper in Holland, Algemeen Dagblad.

Today, at the age of 50 Pim still has his main podium in the sports section, AD Sportwereld. For AD he has photographed five Summer Olympics and three Winter Olympics as well as 10 European and World Football championships across the globe. In his career, Pim has won 43 prizes in the Dutch Silver Camera Contest, as well as two prizes at the international photo contest organised by French sports newspaper L’Equipe.

In his 30-year career, Pim has developed into an all-round photographer with a special talent for sports and portraiture. He works mostly on editorials for Algemeen dagblad, Voetbal International, Voetbal Inside Magazine, Entree Magazine and has also been assigned for documentary photography for Terre des Hommes and Doctors Without Borders. Pim is represented by Hollandse Hoogte and VI-Images.

With 30 winters under his belt shooting winter sports, Ross knows how to get the job done in the testing conditions of a mountain environment. He has great connections across the globe and can supply production assistance for whatever is needed, be it locations, helicopters, action models, hotels, guides and more.

Here are his latest client testimonials:

“How could that have not made the cover, it’s a killer shot! In fact I’m so happy with all the shots you nailed this year.”
Jez Baxter – Creative Director – Snow and Rock / Costwold Outdoor

“Shooting world class skiing images in the often uncompromising mountain environment can be a real challenge, but Ross has never failed to deliver the goods for us. The extra value for us is how easy Ross is to work with and how he always tries to find a solution that works”
Alyn Morgan, Ski Club of Great Britain.

With over 15 years' experience, Thomas Fähnrich is a Cologne-based photographer specialised in people, portrait and sports. He works from his studio as well as on location for advertising, PR and editorial clients.

Possibly as a result of his work as a sports photographer, Thomas loves to work alongside assistants, stylists and clients as part of a team. In the last year he has shot nearly every cover for German running magazine aktivLaufen!, and for over five years he has also worked for German first division football club 1.fc kköln.

Thomas shoots for agencies including Artenreich, BrawandRieken, Förderturm, Polivox and Sidelines as well as magazines and newspapers aktivLaufen! and Welt am Sonntag and brands DFL Digital Sports  Disney, Erima, Mondelez/Milka, Netcolgone, Noventiz, Penny and 1.FC Köln.

Check out his website for more details. Since 2016 Thomas has been represented by Banrap.

Thomas Lovelock is a commercial, advertising and editorial photographer specialising in sports, action, lifestyle and portrait photography.

Thomas' diverse and varied portfolio demonstrates the range and extent of his experience across a variety of mediums. His ability to bring a fresh, strong and distinctive style to the moment and essence of the piece has earned him exposure in publications across the world.

Wojtek Rudzki is a Warsaw-based photographer who, to put it simply, loves sports and people. His work documents the natural movement, personality and striking elegance of athletes, the inherent connection between their effort and beauty.

He relentlessly pursues the perfect moment of each run, exercise, dance or competition. In each person he is looking for a story that wants to be told during the shoot. In his experience the most effective way of reaching this goal is to have an open mind along with confidence in his models.

Wojtek has worked with football players, Olympic athletes, fitness instructors dancers and influencers. Among the companies that have trusted his instincts are T-Mobile, Nike, Aztorin, 4F, Poste Italiane, Jack Daniels and Finlandia Vodka.

In photo shoots Wojtek seeks adventure, new challenges and the opportunity to extend boundaries. But first and foremost, he enjoys meeting extraordinary people who inspire him.