Friday, August 8, 2014

Sports Illustrated photographer Damian Strohmeyer

August 10 meeting at the Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction. Our speaker is Damian Strohmeyer and he will be talking about sports photography. 

Please bring your camera equipments because after lunch we will be going out and photographing a sports game. 

Please sign up here: http://goo.gl/2rLBp7


You can read up on what the meeting is about here: http://vtprophoto.org/page8.html (scroll down to 8/10)

Sports Illustrated photographer Damian Strohmeyer will take you on a trip through his twenty plus years photographing sports for the world's largest sports magazine. From the frozen tundra of Green Bay's Lambeau Field to The Big House at the University of Michigan, from Fenway Park to Yankee Stadium, from sweaty gyms to frozen sidelines Strohmeyer will bring you the photos and the memories from the places and events that captivate the world's sports fans. Super Bowls, World Series, Stanley Cups and Olympics the photographic journey will be as rich in learning moments as it is in memorable photos. The presentation is geared toward photographers of all levels, photo enthusiasts, and sports fans of all types.

After learning about various sports and how to capture moments in them in the morning session, the afternoon session will be a completely hands on opportunity to practice those skills at an actual event with constructive feedback on site from me. If we have time we will then edit and critique the images we have shot when we finish the actual photography.

Bio:
Damian Strohmeyer is a Boston photographer who has been telling stories with photographs for more than two decades. Adept with a wide range of skills he is comfortable working in portraiture, photojournalism, and fast moving news, sports and feature photography in the advertising, commercial and editorial markets.
After stints at The Topeka Capital Journal and The Denver Post newspapers, he has been affiliated with Sports Illustrated magazine for over 20 years. Among the major sports events you might spot Damian are: The World Series, The NCAA Basketball Tournament, The World Cup, The Stanley Cup, The Olympics, and the past 27 Super Bowls. His work has been featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated over 60 times.
Honored in many photo contests Damian has received awards from Pictures of the Year, Missouri University’s POYi, The National Headliners Awards, and The Pro Football Hall of Fame His work is exhibited at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Damian is a member of the exclusive Canon "Explorers of Light" program a group of 50 of the world's most influential photographers and is a frequent speaker at education events.
Damian grew up in Axtell, Kansas and graduated from Washburn University (Topeka, KS). He is married to Joanne Rathe who is a photographer at The Boston Globe and has three children, Jessye, Zach and Leah. 
They reside in the greater Boston area.


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