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Astronaut of the Sea
Some years ago already CNN called Onne van der Wal the “astronaut of the seas”. And indeed there is no better way to describe him. He’s spent a lifetime aboard boats of just about every kin...
The Small Towns Where Ski Jumping is a Centuries-Old Tradition
If you’ve driven through the American Midwest, chances are you’ve passed a ski jump, its telltale scaffolding rising high above the flat landscape. Each winter the storied jumps draw skiers f...
Sport As Muse
A good sports photograph is often measured by its level of peak action – and with the speed that technology moves these days, and as cameras get faster and things like remote cameras more readi...
The Surfers of New York and New Jersey
Unknown to many, the beaches of New York and New Jersey are home to a diverse and vibrant cold-water surfing community. Ice Cream Headaches, published by Damiani, captures a snapshot of this ofte...
A Game that Maintains Immigrants’ Ties to their Homeland
A new exhibition at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Pelotas Oaxaqueñas/Oaxacan Ball Games: Photographs by Leopoldo Peña, features nearly 40 black and white images of traditional team sports played...
Playing High School Football at the Top of America
Ash Adams is a photojournalist based in Anchorage, Alaska who specializes in environmental portraiture and documentary. Last fall, she photographed several practices and games with the Barrow Hig...
George Kalinsky’s Intimate View of Muhammad Ali
George Kalinsky began his job as official house photographer for Madison Square Garden in 1966, when it was still in its old building on Eighth Avenue and 50th Street. Kalinsky says he came up w...
Emirati Youth “Drift” Modified SUVs in the Desert
Youth and disposable income have come together—as they often do—in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), giving rise to “Hajwalah,” an unregulated motorsport in which drivers risk their lives t...
The Cactus League Up Close
For the past two years, Jesse Rieser has covered Spring Training in Arizona, shooting the Cactus League for ESPN. The images he’s made for the magazine and for himself focus on the fans and the...
Telling the Story of Sports Photography
There is a lot that goes into a great sports photograph—it has the right perspective and freezes action at the right moment, it depicts the character of the athletes or tells the story of the g...
The Wacky Side of the Tour de France
Every July, the grandest of bike races gets under way in France with about 200 riders, hundreds of trailing support staff and journalists, and tens of thousands of exuberant—and frequently zany...
Tennis, Abstracted
It took a mile and a half of blue gaffer tape, seven assistants, two anamorphosis artists to plan the distorted perspective and two parkour artists to leap around a derelict Glasgow swimming pool...
David Burnett’s Angle on the Olympics
David Burnett has photographed the Olympic Summer Games every year since 1984—Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London; he’s made it to a few Winter Games as...
Scars and Stripes Forever
The heart of Andréanna Seymore’s book Scars & Stripes: The Culture of Modern Roller Derby is not the roller skating of the game itself, but the vivid community around it. Combining images of p...
Picturing the Marathon
On the first Sunday of November, 50,000 runners dressed in their best sweatpants and Spandex are expected to take part in the 45th New York City Marathon; the number of photos generated by their ...
Rio at Play
“In Rio de Janeiro, sports are life and life is not a spectator sport. Little playing fields steal back space from the asphalt and traffic circles, defying cars and buildings alike. They creep ...
Demolition Man: Anna Alexander on Blake Farrington
This guest post is by Anna Alexander, senior photo editor at WIRED magazine. Here she writes about the work of Blake Farrington, a commercial and reportage shooter based in San Francisco and Los ...
Annual for Speed
“We maintain that Professional Cycling is the Greatest Spectacle on Earth,” states online cycling journal Manual For Speed (MFS) in the introduction to their recently published first book, a...
Running Down a Dream
As the weekend approaches, thousands are mentally and psychically preparing for Saturday’s NYRR Five-Borough Series: Brooklyn Half Marathon. Last year more than 25,000 people from all over the...
High Stakes Shooting at the Belmont
On Saturday, May 2, 2015, fans of horse racing will gather at Churchill Downs for the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby, the horse race known as the “fastest two minutes in sports.” The De...