#205 FROM REALITY SHOW TO PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Today the new Irish Press Photographer of the Year, sports photographer James Crombie talks about 2020. From a pandemic stay at home order when all sports stopped to where he finds himself today, recipient of an award that hasn't gone to a sports photographer for three decades! A year of photographing and thinking ‘outside the box,’ where James has had to reinvent the way he thinks about making sport and news pictures. And the story of a Starling murmuration that went viral in the 'Twittersphere'.
If you listen regularly to the show, doubtless there will be some names and characters you’ve started to recognise. Hegaard the Dane is one of those and he’s been busy on the MPB.com site, our sponsor.
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And our thanks to Patron of the Day, Dionissi Lychnos who has been printing on unique surfaces including the inside of duck eggs. He says; “It struck me recently that for the last three years I’ve been so focused on getting my prints in eggs and on aluminium right, that I have neglected the actual image making part of photography.” So he’s launched a new Insta, just so he can ‘play.’ If you’d like to become a Patron and support the show, read more here.
Photographs copyright James Crombie. Not to be reproduced or used without express permission of the photographer.
