You might have 10 jobs a day, and it could be anything from real estate, to used cars, to a cat up a tree. Paul Pogba and Lionel Messi, FIFA World Cup, Russia 2018. He eventually landed himself a job working for the Leader newspaper.

At this point, he was only about two years deep into what would become his future career.īy the mid-90s, Rob began ringing around the local newspapers, angling for work. With the higher quality football on display came better quality offers to photograph, and before he knew it, soccer magazines were knocking on his door keen to buy his shots and photos of other teams in other national league games. 1/25s f18, 1SO 50.įrom there, an opportunity came to follow his local club as they competed in the national league. “Before too long, other parents were asking me to take photos of their kids, and I found I really enjoyed it, and was soon taking photos for the club.” Crown Oaks Day, Flemington Racecourse 2009. “It would have been the early 90s, and I had bought a camera as I wanted to take photos of them playing,” he explains, calling down the line from lockdown in Victoria. For Rob, that meant capturing his younger brothers playing soccer, like many of us will have done, on the cold sidelines on Saturday mornings in winter. Little dribblersĪs you’d expect, the road to becoming a professional sports photographer starts right at the grass roots.

But what does it take to be a professional sports photographer in an era when every fan has a camera and moments are gone in the blink of an eye? AP meets Getty sports photographer Rob Cianflone to find out. Many of us have dreamed of turning our love for sports into a career.

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