New work: Albert Pujols by Art Streiber for ESPN The Magazine

The cover story of ESPN The Magazine‘s “Recruiting Issue,” which just came out, provides a “pitch-by-pitch account of how one team recruited the best bat and the best arm on the free agent market.” The team in question: the Los Angeles Angels. And the best bat? Slugger Albert Pujols, of course, who was photographed for [...]

Adventure and sports photographer Jorg Badura launches blog

Photographer Jorg Badura—who specializes in adventure, sports & recreation, landscape, and automotive—has just launched a blog to complement his online portfolio. “It is meant to have a multimedia base with brief text about my vision, my work, and parts of my life and interests beyond photography,” he explains. “Basically, it’s a place to express myself and [...]

Happy birthday, Muhammad Ali

Today is the 70th birthday of Muhammad Ali, three-time world heavyweight champ and all-time legend and inspiration. Walter Iooss, who has photographed Ali numerous times over the years, sent me some photos from his archive to celebrate the Greatest… . . Several of these photos, incidentally, are available for purchase—in addition to iconic shots of [...]

Celebrity portraits, ad campaigns, lowriders, pig farmers, and other highlights from Matthias Clamer’s new website

There’s an ongoing debate about what a commercial photographer’s website should be and how it should function. Some people shun Flash, while others embrace it; some insist on literal category names, when others prefer something more personal; some think visitors should be able to pull images right off the site, and others do everything in [...]

Video: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels learns from Walter Iooss’ photos

Explaining that he’s “a very visual learner,” Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels enlisted Walter Iooss to photograph him during a bullpen session in Clearwater, Florida. Cole’s plan was to study Walter’s photos in order to improve his technique. Or, as Scott Palmer of Phillies.com, puts it in the video below: “With this ace photographer’s help, [...]

Jorg Badura photographs runners for The New York Times Magazine

. What’s the correct way to run? In a feature for the issue of The New York Times Magazine that came out the day of the ING New York City Marathon, Christopher McDougall—author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen—takes on this much-debated question, [...]

Walter Iooss for Golf Digest

Walter Iooss has shot for the last three issues of Golf Digest: both the November and December covers (on Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson, respectively), as well as this feature in the January 2012 issue, for which he photographed Ryo Ishikawa, Martin Kaymer, Matteo Manassero, Edoardo Molinari and Francesco Molinari, Charl Schwartzel, Alvaro Quiros, and [...]

Walter Iooss salutes Mariano Rivera

“Congratulations to Mariano Rivera, who established a new all-time save record: 602,” says Walter Iooss, who sent me this celebratory message to the Yankee pitcher last night, along with the following photo of Rivera that he shot in 2009. Go, Mariano! . . .

25 vintage tennis shots by Walter Iooss

The U.S. Open started yesterday, inspiring Walter Iooss to pull together a selection of his tennis photos from the 1970s and ’80s. It’s especially fun to look at these images knowing that Andy Samberg impersonated some of these athletes for the New York Times Magazine cover story that Walter shot for Kathy Ryan, the magazine’s [...]

Walter Iooss shoots Andy Samberg as McEnroe, Agassi, and other tennis pros for NYT Magazine

. Yesterday Arem Duplessis, the design director of The New York Times Magazine, tweeted a sneak peek of this Sunday’s cover: a re-creation of a famous 1980 shot of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, with comedian Andy Samberg playing both men and photographed by Walter Iooss. Well, that image is

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