Brad Mangin 

Brad is actually a sports photographer but as my theme is identity and place and that my model is my brother playing football to symbolise his idea of valued place to portray his hobby I thought that looking at a bit of sports photography would be great.

Bio:

Brad Mangin is a Bay Area freelance sports photographer. Mangin has done eight cover shots for Sports Illustrated. Mangin graduated from San Jose State in a degree in photojournalism. He was born in 1965 and is now age 54.  Mangin is known for his  photographing of Major League Baseball for clients like Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos since 1987.

The reason i have chosen Brad Mangin to study is because it links well with the idea of identity and place. He chose to place himself in areas of the game to capture action shots like some of the examples before. This links well with my idea as im doing sports as part of the identity of my model. I’ve also decided to use the times before and after the games as almost like a before and after to capture the tiredness and the determined facial expressions of the individuals.

Having looked at Brad’s work, I have chosen to go down the lines of social identity and enviromental portraits.  To be able to achieve sports photography,

However having reviewed over more photographers that base around the area of Sports photography i have decided that i do not just want to  stick to the idea of just photographing my brother playing sports in a field but to capture his passion for football. I am going to portray a series of images that rather than just being seen as a simple images with no context there will be a story of a boy who aspires to be a famous footballer and play for teams like Manchester United and Portugal, not to mention his slight obsession with Ronaldo, whom  he sees as a role model.