In 1972 while I was a junior in high school, I became the youngest photographer ever to be recognized as a beat photographer at the Boston Garden for basketball and hockey and receive a working stool stored in the pressroom.
Working as a Staff Photographer under well-known sports photographer Dick Raphael at Sports Record Weekly, it was he that taught me the ropes and etiquette working around some of the most famous athletes Boston sports produced. When not shooting something with Dick, i was learning my craft from well-known Boston area photographers Fred Keenan and Mike Cullen
Much later on while working for the US Ski Team, I began working with a London-based photo agency called ActionPlus where I learned the European method of documenting an event for those readers, which forms a key part of how I approach an assignment and what images I need for syndication.
I was also the Executive Director and principal of SportsFile, a US-based photo agency working in affiliation with ActionPlus in Europe and Jeff Crow Photo in Australia. Through this association my agencies images were distributed all of the world through syndications and assignments. We syndicated two Olympic games, regularly covered the NFL and had photography contracts with the US Ski Team and PGA of America.
My eyes have seen a lot over the years, but one thing is constant: the excitement of bringing a sporting event to life in images is something that cannot be matched and still impacts me the way it did in Boston way back in 1972
