Sporting Life
In a single image, artists with cameras tell stories of sport
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"Sky Drive" by Patrick Smith of Getty Images is the overall winner of the 2023 World Sports Photography Awards.
PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
The artists have no hiding place. If it’s slushy or sweltering, it doesn’t matter, they’re in the open. For an hour or six. Waiting for the moment and it will come without warning. The footballer might slip but they can’t.
The artists’ work has a finer impact on you than you might have considered. You pause daily at what they do like at a painting at a gallery. You find meaning, wonder, style. You’re stilled yet transported. You see the world anew.
