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

New work: Steven Lippman photographs “Europe’s most controversial soccer player” for ESPN The Magazine

In his profile of Mario Balotelli in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, writer Sam Alipour dubs Balotelli “Europe’s most controversial soccer player.”Apparently, Balotelli—who plays for England’s Manchester City soccer team—is a gifted athlete but rather mercurial. In his first season with Man City, Alipour explains, Balotelli “was red-carded twice…and was reprimanded for off-field [...]

Presenting… 22 new editorial and advertising highlights

I’ll be taking next week off, but to tide you over, here’s a look at 22 of our photographers’ latest editorial and advertising shoots, as featured in our spring e-newsletter. See you on Monday, April 4… .   . .

Walter Iooss and Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers

. Deutsch commissioned Walter Iooss to shoot this year’s Milk ads for the Super Bowl, which meant photographing Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers sporting milk ‘staches for an that appeared ahead of the big game: . . Walter also shot individual portraits of them so that [...]

Doug Menuez on capturing “the soul of sport”

With any shoot, there are always great images that never get used. The client needs six shots, for example, and the photographer produces nine solid options. Or, if you’re Doug Menuez, the client needs six shots, and you produce 30,000 images. True story. An international sportswear brand was creating a new campaign for Europe a [...]

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