Researching photographers

Mark Pain

While researching sports photographers I came across Mike Pain. He is a multi-award winning sports photographer and has been for over 25 years. He covers major events all around the world. Ranging from the Olympic Games to the Ryder Cup. He has also covered rugby World Cups and World Championship athletics. As well as having covered these major events; Pain also photographs for the Mail on Sunday, capturing images of the premier league on a weekly basis. He also does work making portraits and features of the biggest stars in the world of sport. However, he foes not just cover sports photography. Other aspects of his work range from food to property photography. He works for both editorial and corporate clients and is the Chief Sports Photographer of The Mail on Sunday. Mark Pain has been named the Sports Photographer of the Year two times, in both 2005 and 2011 at the British Press Awards.   He was named as the British Airways Olympic Photographer of the Year 2012 at the prestigious UK Guild of Picture Editors Award. In 2011 Mark successfully launched the first dedicated Sports Photography School in the UK, and in 2013 became a Nikon Ambassador.

Bob Martin

Bob Martin is a very highly regarded sports photographer that has won many awards. He specialises in shooting action, graphic and editorial pictures for advertising corporate and editorial clients. Bob’s career has been a very affluent one over the last 30 years and he has photographed every major sporting event from the last 13 summer and winter Olympic games to elephant polo and horse racing on ice. His work has been taken from all around the world and published in lots of the world’s most prestigious publications including: Life Magazine, The New York Times , The Sunday Times and L”Equipe.  Bob Martin lives in his native England and boasts to be the other Sports Illustrated photographer to be based outside of the USA. He also worked for London 2012 consulting on photographic issues for the Olympics. He was also appointed the Photo Chief based in the MPC.

Tim Clayton

Tim trained at Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, UK, his home town for a decade before moving to Australia in 1990 to take up a position as Sports Photographer for The Sydney Morning Herald, which he held for 18 years. Tim left the paper in 2008 to freelance and has traveled extensively for the past four years. He recently relocated to the New York area. His work is represented by Corbis. His many sports assignments have included eight Olympic Games, five Rugby World Cups and the FIFA World Cup. He has been recognized for the high standard of his work winning eight World Press Photo Awards which include three first place awards in 1994, 2004 and 2007. In 2003, The Observer Sports Magazine, UK, placed four of Tim's pictures in its selection of the 50 best sports images of all time. Tim is a keen campaigner on ethics in photojournalism and is a keen advocate of developing photo essays in sports photography to help put the profession on a par with other areas of photojournalism.