HOME BASE: SPAIN

Gonzalo Manera is a photographer from Madrid, Spain. He’s loved sports since he was a child and his passions have always been skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, and being in the mountains. When he started shooting his first subjects were his friends skating and snowboarding and in a few years he made his way into the industry and started working as a pro.

He has been shooting for over 20 years and soon after starting photography, he started into video as well. He feels truly fortunate to work with magazines and brands from all over the world but his greatest accomplishment is to wake up every day with passion for his job and not having a boss.

Gonzalo is always doing creative work and he curated a snowboard photography book called The Eight and runs Visual University, a weekly photography podcast.

He currently lives in Madrid and when he is not shooting or traveling he is spending time with his wife Marta and kids, Teo and Cecilia.

HOME BASE: Philippines

Before arriving in Asia, Gary was a photographer & Videographer in the British Army

Gary’s career as a military photographer working in Combat Camera Teams helped develop his unique and intimate style

Gary had exclusive access to Princes William & Harry during their military service, as well as being an official photographer for the Royal family, including the Queen.

Work took him to a variety of exciting locations from Northern Ireland, The Balkans, the Middle East and Africa. Gary is an avid traveler and is currently exploring Asia.

In November 2015 - Gary was privileged and fortunate to be awarded a job that allowed him to shoot “Behind the Scenes” with Heads of State of the APEC Nations. This allowed unprecedented access and interaction with the leaders of the APEC Nations including President Obama of the USA and President Xi Jinping of China.

In 2017, Gary became an official Fuji X-Photographer and brand ambassador for Fujifilm.

Clients of F8 Photography range from Ducati, Pirelli, Audi, UBS, ABN Amro, Coca-Cola, Swire Properties Hong Kong, Asia jet, and Bookazine, amongst many others.

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.”

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.

HOMETOWN: ITALY

Francesco Gola is an Italian engineer who's fallen in love with photography. Born in Italy in 1981, as soon as he started taking pictures he fell in love with long exposures and seascapes.

For him, a long exposure is a parallel universe in which to escape from the frenzy of modern life and a source of inspiration that allows him to reveal the relationship between the outside world of Nature and the inside world of dreams, thoughts, emotions, desires, and wishes.

His passion for the sea and travels led him to visit some of the most iconic locations on this planet looking at them with different eyes. While continuing to travel in search of new landscapes to be photographed, he now lives and works in Milan where he collaborates with companies, sites, and magazines for the diffusion of photographic culture in Italy and in the world.

HOME BASE: IRELAND

Fiona is a professional photographer and videographer based in Dublin, Ireland.  Passionate about recording life in pictures and video. She’s recalls from a young age she knew she could see the world of light, color and symmetry more obviously than others.

Today she is still striving to show the worlds spectacular beauty to all who need to see it. “People can be moved and changed by the beauty that is beyond their scope. That means I seek to be a visual story teller…a teacher…a guide”.  She lives for sports and the great outdoors and lives a fairly active lifestyle.  Rarely spotted without a camera in hand or a Go Pro attached, she misses no opportunity! 

“I love to travel and explore the most underpopulated places I can find”.  I’m delighted to be partnered with f-stop, who make incredible bags for all kinds of photographers and videographers! Stoked to be on the team."

HOME BASE: ITALY

Fabio is a photographer and a designer, but since he was young he has been inspired by traveling and meeting different cultures in different places. Before with his family, and after by himself, he moved to Ireland and Australia. Today he has still the same approach, he tries to live his journey by framing visions with my camera, without forgetting what is all around him: talking to people, learning about their habits and their food. The experiences he can live, approaching always as a guest wherever he goes, suggest that sometimes it's hard to capture on digital camera emotions, so he must protect them in his memories, in his mind, and in his heart. What he loves the most is organizing workshops where, besides teaching photography techniques, he is sharing with people the same experiences, forging different types of travelers.

Besides all the adventures he’s doing in nature, Fabio is a rider passionate about motorbikes and cars, a market where he works as an action photographer for a commercial advertising agency. On rainy days, he likes to stick in the studio for still-life photography, where he plays with lights and do-it-yourself stuff to make new effects, waiting for good weather to get out again.

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.

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: 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.