SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 2020

Andre Schönherr is an Austria-based photographer, focusing on commercial sports and outdoor photography. 

Living in the Austrian Alps, the mountains are his favourite place to be and work. That makes him a great choice when shooting in challenging conditions and terrain. Photography takes him around the world, from Greenland to the Sahara Desert or the Mongolian Steppe, creating bold imagery for his clients with a unique style. 

Andre’s experience makes him a reliable partner who delivers only best results. He is an easy-going guy who never loses focus and is fun to work with. 

He recently received his second QEP Certificate by the Federation of European Photographers.

D. Scott Clark found his love for photography and adventure in Indiana and quickly discovered he needed to leave to pursue his passions. He has since lived in Uganda and India, travelled to 20+ countries for photography and now resides in the adventure capital of Colorado.  

Combining his professional commercial photography training and his love for active lifestyles, Scott has made a career spanning that gap; shooting for active brands like Red Bull, La Sportiva, Jansport, and Zeal Optics and also shooting for commercial brands like Starbucks and Chase Bank. 

Visit D. Scott's website to see more.

David Ross, a sports and lifestyle photographer from the Central Coast NSW, is an energetic, passionate creative who is happy to go the extra mile to get the job done.

His ability to capture dynamic movement while making images look smooth and natural is a skill he has honed from years spent shooting within the ocean and high-speed sports. Through his photography he can translate power and strength in athletes whilst highlighting versatility and features in products. He creates clean, powerful images that move and inspire.

David Ross has built his portfolio over the past five years working with brands such as Reebok, TWL, Under Armour, Rebel Sport, Corona, Ford Australia and Travellers Autobarn among others.

Through these projects he has worked with top level competitive athletes, explorative travellers, iconic landscapes and trending products alike.

His work has taken him through Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand and across Australia.

Dean Northcott has had a very busy and successful 2019 with both his personal and commissioned work. His vibrant new style for his personal work saw him as a finalist at the 2019 AOP Awards and a winner at the 2019 Colour Awards. This led to exciting commissions in his commercial work with advertising shoots for Maverick, HM Government and O2 Arena, amongst others.

Born in New Zealand, Dean was raised on a diet of sport, barbeques and beach. After several years of world travel in his early 20s during which time he developed his sense of aesthetics, he arrived camera-in-hand in London in the early 90s and went on to study photography at LCP.

A former semi-pro rugby player, a third dan black-belt in karate and marathon runner, sport is at the epicentre of Dean's entire life and this is exemplified in the mood and texture of his work.

Derek Johnson is a Denver-based commercial photographer who creates authentic, bold and timeless imagery for a wide variety of clients all around the world.

Through meticulous lighting and a unique perspective, Derek creates powerful imagery that helps tell the brand's story across all formats. He often finds himself shooting product, automotive, lifestyle/fitness and portraits for a wide range of clients.

He's fortunate to have worked for brands such as PS Audio, New Balance, Highland Park Whisky, 000 Magazine, Women's Running Magazine, Bylt Basics, Colorado Rockies, NCAA, Galvanize, Designscapes, Grip2U, Strongwater, Pizzeria Locale, Uber Eats, Open Table, and Neff Headwear. 

See more of his recent work on his site or through Instagram and email him to discuss the details of your upcoming project.

Eric Yip is a photographer specialising in creating dynamic images in the active lifestyle, sport and portrait space.

Using the environment to his advantage, he blends clever use of natural and studio lights to photograph his subjects in the best light to deliver a sense of heroism. 

Eric’s photographs are always exploring new perspectives on the brief and different representations of the people he shoots - it is always unique and authentic.

Eric is available regionally and is based between Australia and Singapore.

Flo is a photographer based out of Hamburg, Germany and focuses on sports and storytelling in his work. After taking a detour via his business studies, he quickly realised that photography suits him better than a suit and traded that grey office in for a camera.

His recognisable style is natural and cinematic. His choice of composition often creates an observing almost documentary feel, while the light keeps the overall atmosphere moody and emotional.

From Berlin over Oslo to LA, Florian realised a number of interesting projects for international sports clients in the past months, such as Adidas, Camel Active and Peloton. 

While he keeps broadening his commercial sports and people portfolio as a photographer, he also focuses more and more on his career as a director and is represented by Ruhe Management from now on.

His new short film, 'After the Beep', will be released on 8th March.

Graeme Murray loves creating, his whole career has been in the image industry. After training in professional photography his early days saw him working at one of New Zealand’s top audio/visual production companies. He was responsible for creating, developing and producing product launches for New Zealand’s largest corporations, using various types of multimedia from theatrical lighting, to video slide projection and interactive graphics, to set design and - the most fun - pyrotechnics!

The desire to be shooting led him into running his own successful photography business. Graeme now works with clients and agencies on projects that include portraiture, people, lifestyle and sport related to advertising. He takes all his knowledge and experience from previous work in the AV and TV industries into his photography, so dealing with any situation is effortless.

He has a great rapport with clients and the production crew on jobs and goes beyond the norm to make sure the shoot meets and exceeds expectations.

Clients include Red Bull, Adidas, Specialized Bikes USA, Samsung, VW, John Deere, AIG, Ford, Bendon, Ozone, Atomic, Tourism New Zealand and Mac Pac Outdoor Clothing, among others.

Graeme can be found in the studio or shooting outdoors and is also an official Red Bull International Photographer.

Creating visual moments.

Michael never thought about being anything else than a photographer. He has always been very close to nature and is therefore especially attracted to untouched landscapes, nevertheless urban life with its details do as well.

Always searching for new and thrilling locations he is travelling around the world to find and experience new situations, moments and emotions and to catch them with his camera.

For this purpose, he will not avoid any challenges – such as complicated weather conditions with extreme temperatures or risky, hazardous, adventurous locations. His motivation and effort are always focused on the perfect visual moment. 

Michael lives close to Munich and he specialises in sports, people and lifestyle photography.

Mitchel Gray: over 100 covers, over 1000 editorials, ads, and web pages, two best-selling coffee table books, several NYC (and elsewhere) art gallery shows, and a bunch of videos. 

Bodies - 'In Action', 'At Rest', and 'Intertwined' have been one of the two current focuses of Mitchel’s work. The second has been portraits- celebrities, athletes, models, performers, and real people. 

The images included in this issue of are all current and help round out the overall portfolio. The new 'Bodies in Action' photos feature NFL players, pro boxers, and spectacular dancers from great companies. Note that in each photo on a black background that appears to have more than one person in it, it is actually the same person in competition with themselves. A “Bodies in Action” book is in the works.

Follow Mitchel on Instagram and Facebook to see the latest work.

Philip Edsel is a three-times PDN Award-winning photographer and director for his fitness, fashion and motion work.

Inspired by classical art, modern design and potential energy, Philip’s work captures “empowered people in motion” and combines stills, video, animation and drones to create cutting-edge, multi-medium art at the intersection of fashion and culture.

Pierre Rios is a commercial director and photographer based in Panama City. Originally from a tropical country, he studied film in New Zealand in 2007 and then polished his photography skills when he studied and worked alongside some of the best US photographers, such as sports photographer Tim Tadder, automotive photographer Easton Chang and food and beverages expert Rob Grim. 

After four years making shows for the Discovery Channel and several movies around the globe, he wanted to change into commercial work and found a gap to do it by creating his own production company.

His latest work includes commercial work for brands such as Fila, Nike, Subaru and Red Bull to name a few.

Robin Smith is a dynamic and precision styled photographer from New Zealand. Always experimenting in his Auckland-based studio, he's constantly pushing the boundaries of imagination and machine to their limits through his work. He believes there is no visual concept that can’t be solved.

His approach to image creating draws from his love of DIY from building sets to outdoor environments that captures the movement in his subjects with moody dramatic impactfulness. 

Robin is highly creative and passionate about what he does with just a touch of mad, lightly sprinkled with constant curiosity. His charismatic charm and ability to see from the big picture to the details is an asset to any project, using his unconventional problem solving has given him the nickname MacGyver.

He is grateful to have worked directly for some of iconic brands such as Tourism Auckland, 2Degrees, Vodafone, Les Mills, Horleys, Isuzu NZ, Hyundai, Sony Music and many others.

JSR, one of the UK's most awarded and successful creative agencies, is proud to present new signing Simon Clark, a sports and lifestyle photographer who lives every moment of his assignments.

A keen sportsman, watersport enthusiast and all-round sporting fan, his love for physical activity comes through every shot, focusing on the emotional power of sporting endeavour and the humanity of his subjects.

His client includes Lululemon, Every Second Counts, BAM, O'Neil, Very, Kitbag, Jacamo, KCA-LABS, Star in the hood, Littlewoods, Thorntons, Reebok, Nissan, The Champions League and L'Officiel.

See more of his work here. 

Yuriy's photographs are a mixture of elegance, burst of motion, atmospheric lights and precisely constructed compositions, where every element has its own place.

Although Yuriy has already developed his recognisable style, his high technical knowledge, art director's thinking and curiosity to experiment make him a visual polyglot, which allows him to move flexibly between the photographic genres.

He is always well-prepared to meet his clients' needs. The combination of the German accuracy and the Eastern European spontaneity makes working with Yuriy fun, creative and reliable.

As a passionate sports and martial arts practitioner for many years, Yuriy has worked as a model in the past. This all together gives him a much better understanding on how to direct his models to get the best results. A good example of Yuriy's contemporary sport imagery is the campaign "Arrival" for the brand Gymshark.