best cycling photographers?

JimSW19
JimSW19 Posts: 7
edited December 2009 in The bottom bracket
Evening,

Can anybody recommend me or point me in the direction of the work of some good or great cycling photographers?? Or equally some sources or references for cycling photography? There's a load out there it seems, so I'd like to approach it with a few starting points rather than trawling through the mire of possibilities thrown up by google searching.

Cheers!

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  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    Graham Watson's very well-known

    http://www.grahamwatson.com/
    Cannondale Six Carbon
  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    Ands wrote:
    Graham Watson's very well-known

    http://www.grahamwatson.com/

    and continues to churn out anodyne cliched rubbish- tim de waele's yer man :D
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Definitely Tim.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Try checking out a few copies of 'Rouler' quarterly cycling magazine. Quality photography throughout its' pages:
    RLR_issue2_cover.jpg

    ...at times Magnum, Bresson, Nat Geographic, reportage styles...
    ...lovely. 8)
    Cycling weakly
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    Stephan Vanfleteren.
    his book 'Flandrien' is well worth searching for, I don't know if you can get it in the UK, Amazon maybe. It's just a small book, no text, black and white potraits and landscapes. Stunningly good. the ISBN number is 90-7697-922-7
    In tyhe new Rouleur photography annual the photos by Camille J. McMillan are knockout, upside down photos of cyclists taken in a mirror (thats the best I can do to explain it...).Olaf Unverzart is another top photographer from Rouleur.
    Cor Vos is good for the standard race action shots.
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    and dont bother with the calendar in this months procycling, one decent pick of the alps and chuff all else
  • Slapshot
    Slapshot Posts: 211
    Who is and who isn't a good photographer is too subjective, we all see things differently, I shoot about 10,000 images a year but I shoot what I like, it's not a profession though i do sell a fair amount of sports stuff but its very esoteric stuff.

    I like Cor Vos and Roberto Bettini not keen on Watson though.
    http://justcycling.myfastforum.org
  • JimSW19
    JimSW19 Posts: 7
    Brilliant, thanks for the ideas. I'm liking the look of Rouler in particular so far, exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for. I'd heard of Graeme Watson, from what I could make out his work is more of your standard sports photo journalism, not that there's anything wrong with that.
  • blim
    blim Posts: 333
    The Rouleur snappers get my vote. Cycle Sport have obviously noticed that people are doing different thing with cycling photography, and have had some recent photo articles which have strayed a lttle from their Graeme Watson-norm. He's great at what he does (his Lemond & Hinault on the Alpe is a classic), but it's all a bit staid.
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