Treating Sports Photographers as the Artists They Are | NY Times recognizes real

Could you imagine skateboarding, snowboarding, or surfing without the artists that have dedicated their lives to properly capturing the lifestyles and their greatest moments and icons?

The truth is none of the three sports would be the same if the level of photography behind them weren’t so high and taken so seriously. It is much more than just pointing and shooting. It is art. And it’s true for every sport, as the New York Times points out.

“… sports photographers have traditionally been regarded as hard-working craftsmen who snap the winning goal or disastrous error, then do it all over again the next day. But, she argues, sports photographers have been producing art all these years. The best ones knew exactly what they were doing.”

Atiba Jefferson shot the above shot of Andrew Reynolds – one of my favorite of all time – and although neither him nor another skate photographer was mentioned in the article, it’s all the same same.

Read the whole Treating Sports Photographers as the Artists They Are on the New York Times here.