SPORT & FITNESS PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 2021

Charles is a commercial and editorial photographer specialising in fitness, athletic apparel, beauty, and underwater photography.

Chasing those in between moments just before and after the peak of action is where the true story lies. With a strong technical knowledge of lighting and cinematic techniques, Charles creates unique story telling imagery for agencies and clients direct.

Charles has a demonstrated ability to lead teams and effectively communicate between subject, client, and creatives. Team collaboration is a key component to creating a shared experience that results in remarkable photos.

Eric Politzer is a Los Angeles-based photographer specialising in sports and wellness, dance, music, and corporate. In the last couple of months, his work has been recognised as a Category winner at the Siena Photo Awards, Shortlist at the Paris Photo Awards, and Shortlist at the Spotlight Awards.

Eric is a portraitist at heart, and his approach to shooting sports, fitness, and wellness is founded on a deep respect for all of his subjects. Every image is intended to express as much as possible about the subject: their personality, emotions and goals. Every photo starts with the subject, and then environment, lighting and composition are used as narrative devices to help tell their story.

Eric’s passion for storytelling ranges from individual photos to documentary projects. His most involved sports project was The Legends of Cuban Baseball, a three years effort to celebrate the most idolised living Cuban baseball players, who never left the country to seek fame and fortune in the Major Leagues. He was granted unparalleled access for a foreign photographer to training facilities, stadiums, players and coaches all across Cuba.

Eric Yip is a photographer based in Sydney, Australia and available region-wide for assignments.

Making images in the fitness and active lifestyle space, he has the ability to put the energy and purpose of the brand to visuals. By giving his subjects a generous level of space to perform and emote, he creates an environment that is relaxed and conducive for the best performance to be captured on camera.

Connect on with him on his website, socials or LinkedIn to discuss how he can work with you on your next project.

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, Tudor Watches, Under Armour, Samsung, Wendy’s, VW, John Deere, AIG, Ford, Bendon, Ozone, Atomic, Tourism New Zealand, Mac Pac Outdoor Clothing, Powerade, Fonterra, among others.

Graeme can be found in the studio or shooting outdoors, is the 200 Best Ad Photographers 21/22 and also an official Red Bull International Photographer.

Hamish Brown is an award-winning photographer whose talent and style have secured him shoots worldwide for many of the top names in celebrity, music and sport.

His meticulous preparation, combined with his distinctive and creative use of lighting, has become as much a hallmark of his work – as has his ability to achieve the very best results through a relaxed yet professional style.

See more here and follow on Instagram.

Hamish is represented by JSR, check their latest projects on Instagram.

Max Draeger is a professional mountain sports and outdoor lifestyle photographer based in Tyrol, Austria working on international commercial and editorial assignments.

Inspired by the shapes, forms and atmospheres created by nature, his work focusses on extraordinary locations and intense weather and light scenarios spiced with strong athletes performance. Striving for a raw and natural look he hardly makes use of artificial lightning.

As a skier, mountaineer and mountain biker himself, he is able to back up his work with a great understanding for the athletes, the action and the environment. Mainly working in a streamlined team of handpicked members, he is able to keep up with the talents, reach remote locations and serves his clients with authentic images that large productions are hardly able to capture.

Recently Max has been working for industry leading brands like ORTOVOX, evil eye and SCARPA as well as magazines like bike, Outdoor, Bergwelten and Backline.

Michael Mueller has shot the TrueOriginals campaign for Buff.

"The challenge was to find groups of friends and follow and capture their adventures in a way that is authentic and inspiring - but always from the perspective of the product.

In five days we shot urban running, commuting, gravel bike, road bike, trekking and trail running. Tough timing, but we found a real cool cast for all the topics and the city of Oslo and the Jotunheimen National Park in Norway gave us the perfect autumn looking locations we needed for this campaign. "

This Original Buff campaign was shot for Fresh Britain, and production was handled by Natural Born Explorers.

Check out Michael's website. Michael is represented by Agentur Neubauer in Germany, NODOP in Scandinavia and ATMSPHR in the United States.

Within his work Rich’s main goal is to blend authentic movement with beautiful light.

A keen enthusiast for sport himself, his goal is to capture authentic movement that not only appeal to a commercial audience, but also give a nod to the sport purists. Whether that’s ensuring the technique on a boxing shot doesn’t look awkward and unrealistic or a passion to avoid cliche leaps and stretches too often seen in fitness photography, Rich ensures his shots are not only vibrant with colour but also true to their origins.

Simon’s youthful energy, naturally upbeat personality and love of sport shine through in everything he does, either through his photography or his life. This mix allows him to capture images both authentic yet aspirational.

His love of the outdoors, beach lifestyle, football, surfing and tennis means that Simon splits his time living between London and Barcelona. He is fun, hard-working and loves his work and family very much.

His client includes Lululemon, Every Second Counts, BAM, O’Neill, Very, Kitbag, Jacamo, KCA-LABS, Stars in the wood, Littlewoods, Thorntons, Reebok, Nissan, The Champions League and L’Officiel.

See more of Simon's work here and follow him on Instagram. Simon is represented by JSR; you can follow him on Instagram.

Simon is a London-based, award-winning advertising photographer and director whose work takes him all over the world, photographing some of the most iconic brands.

He is also an established commercials director and started his career with a short film called ‘El Apprentice’ which was shot in Chile and was shown at the LA Short Film Festival. He has directed commercials for Bentley, The Discovery Channel, Mercedes, Toyota, Volvo, Wild Aid, Norfolk Southern Railway, ITV, the ‘Bleed for England’ spot for the Rugby World Cup and most recently Toby Carvery and Travelodge.

Commercial clients include Rolls-Royce, Alfa Romeo, Audi, American Airlines, Bentley, BMW, BP, British Airways, Castrol, Deutsche Telekom, Discovery Channel, Disney, Dodge, Emirates Airlines, Fairy, Ford, HSBC, Hummer, Hyundai, ITV, Jaguar, Jeep, London Transport, Lucozade, Lufthansa, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Milka, Nestlé, O2, Plusnet, P&O Cruises, Porsche, RBS, Range Rover, Renault, Toyota, Vauxhall, Volkswagen and Vodafone.

See more here and follow on Instagram.

Simon is represented by JSR, follow them on Instagram.

Thomas is a photographer based in Cologne, Germany, specialising in sports and lifestyle and is represented by Bosch to Banrap. Thomas does not only photograph sports, he is also an enthusiastic athlete himself and trains very often during the week.

Due to his enthusiasm for sports, both professionally and privately, he is able to adapt very well to a wide range of requirements for every production.

He often finds himself on location, as well as working in a studio. He likes variety and new challenges.

Thomas has worked worldwide for many different brands, sport clubs and agencies. 

Visit his website or Instagram.