HOME BASE: USA

Michael Clark is an internationally published adventure photographer. He produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit and has risked life and limb on numerous assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, mountain bikers, big-wave surfers, skydivers, and many other extreme sports athletes, often working in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics, and cutting-edge, dramatic lighting techniques to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair, and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits, and wild landscapes, he creates images for the editorial, advertising, and stock markets worldwide.

As a former physicist, Michael has worked on both sides of the technical revolution – helping refine the technology and using it for his current profession. Michael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996. He has been featured in Digital Photo Pro, Outdoor Photographer, Nikon World Magazine, Digital Photographer, and Rangefinder Magazine for his work with extreme sports. Digital Photo Pro proclaimed Michael a "Master of Adventure" Photography” in their 2011 Masters issue.

He contributes to National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men's Journal, Backpacker, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Bike Magazine, and The New York Times among many others.

A sampling of Michael's advertising clients includes Apple, Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Red Bull, Microsoft, Nokia, Patagonia, New Balance, Propel/Gatorade, Pfizer, DuPont, 20th Century Fox, Black Diamond, Prana, Arc'teryx, Camelbak, La Sportiva, and Gregory Packs.

HOME BASE: SPAIN

Mario Rubio is a specialized photographer in night photography and long-exposure photography. Since 2.008 He is the CEO of the Spanish Company “Fotógrafo Nocturno” whose community is all over the Spanish-speaking countries.

Mario Rubio is involved in education. For this reason, he publishes a magazine every six months. He also published two podcasts related to photography and the business too.

In addition to this, He organizes the International Night Photography Congress “iNight” in Madrid and he is algo de founder of AFONOCTE, “Spanish Night Photographers Association”

He has published two books and his main activity is doing workshops all over Spain and in any other countries like Iceland, Argentina, México, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica and others.

To sum up, Mario Rubio represents to the big community of night photographers in Spain.

HOMEBASE: USA
Matt was raised in the outdoor mecca of Truckee, CA which has inspired a life dedicated to exploring the World’s most remote places while inspiring others through amazing imagery. He has traveled to over 75 countries and all seven continents, filming for some of the biggest brands in the world as a director of photography, camera operator and drone pilot. He operates two media companies, TahoeMatt Media and Mosaic Studios.

HOME BASE: CHILE 

Juan Luis de Heeckeren is a Chilean photographer and filmmaker born in Santiago on 1987,  he has dedicated most of his life to practicing action sports and capturing images about them, mostly around Chile.  In his continual tracking of athletes in epic places, Juan Luis has captured most of the Chilean sports scene at impressive chilean landscapes.

With a Photography degree from the School of Photography in Universidad del Pacifico at Santiago,  he has been working as a freelance photographer for different brands of the sports industry as Red Bull, The North Face, Quiksilver, Patagonia, and others.

His work has been published in different magazines and newspapers from Chile and around the world as Surfers Journal, Surfer Magazine, Sup Journal, Windsurfing Mag, The Kiteboarder, Red Bull Bulletin, Surfline.com, Skinet.com, and others.

Nowadays Juan Luis is constantly moving around between the Andes Mountain range and the Chilean coast, looking for perfect landscapes to shoot action sports or just sightsee the chilean beautiful terrain.

My name is Long Nguyen and from Albuquerque, New Mexico. I consider myself an adventure/sports journalist, and I go wherever my camera takes me – for the thrill of an adventure and the action of the sport. I enjoy photographing many things, but my emphasis is on mountain biking. I continue to live for the quest and for photography. Every day I get to look forward to a never-ending thrill ride.

Home Base: Italy

Luca is a sportsman, he participated in the Chamonix climbing world championships in 2003, he is a climbing instructor, a climbing route setter and a mid-mountain guide.

He loves to photograph mountain sports but also big events like the 2012 London Olympic ceremonies, Sochi 20164 and Rio 2016.

He loves to photograph ski, mountainbike, trail running and climbing and all sports, especially if there are extreme conditions! In 2008 he founded risk4sport, an agency specializing in photography and action sports videos.”

HOMEBASE: USA

Recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers in his field, Josh Berman has been shooting, producing, directing, and editing award-winning ski films and outdoor commercial work for the past two decades for clients around the globe.

Josh started his career on the New York City production scene working for Radical Media while earning a degree in Film Studies and Photography from Dartmouth College, from which he graduated with honors in 2001. When a knee injury sidetracked Josh’s pursuit of skiing professionally he stepped behind the lens and founded Level 1 Productions as a vehicle through which to produce his first ski films. While his original plan was to pull the plug on ski films after the first few years and pursue a more traditional filmmaking career in NY or LA, he instead forged his own path following the snow to Colorado in 2003.

Josh has been based out of Denver ever since, though his filmmaking has taken him around the world and back several times over. Now 20-years deep, Level 1 has produced twenty annual features and hundreds of commercials and short form content pieces while establishing a loyal and global fan base, and taking home awards and accolades in the process. Over the years Josh has also judged the X Games, infamously wrote a script for ski film icon Warren Miller, founded the Sony FilmerUnknown contest, and helped to jumpstart the careers of athletes and filmmakers in snowsports and beyond.

HOME BASE: INDIA

At 14 he took a few photos on a mobile phone. A few months later he walked into an electronics store and held a DSLR for the first time, only to be taken aback by all the numbers, icons and information on the screen. It was almost a year later that he got his first DSLR, a 1000D.

Now at 23, he is the first Indian photographer to shoot the grueling Dakar Rally in 2019 and also various rounds of the FIM Cross Country Rally Championship. He has worked with every automobile publication in the country, creating various editorial features, and has finally made a foray into the world of advertising.

Action Sports is not all about shooting these immensely hardworking athletes. For Ishaan, it is a cue to cultivate a fitter lifestyle, to ultimately be more efficient, and also to portray the inner feeling of every athlete in literally the truest form possible. Only if you ride a dirt bike on a motocross track, do you realize what every 20-minute moto demands physically and mentally. You have to feel it to understand what level of preparation these athletes bring to the sport. The better the level of understanding, the better the images. Well, at least most of the time.

Being a part of the Red Bull Content Pool team in India, his fundamentals are very clear on shortcuts and hard work. Dirt and adventure are the genres that drive him to do everything that is needed to translate the thoughts in his mind into reality!!

HOME BASE: SOUTH KOREA

Jongmo Seo is a photographer who shooting the views from skyscrapers in Seoul with time-lapse skills. Moreover, he loves adventures out of city like backpacking and winter sports.

He did some hyper-lapse projects with Sony and worked with other government offices to promote the cities and specific places in Korea. In addition to this directing some commercial projects with brands and companies.