Shaun Botterill
Shaun Botterill has covered several major football tournaments during his career including the World Cup tournaments in 1994, 1998 and 2002 and the European Championships in 1992, 1996 and 2000.

Botterill, who has been with Getty Images since 1998, began his career in 1984 in the darkroom at Bob Thomas Sports Photography and has traveled the world covering major sporting events including the Rugby World Cup in South Africa and the 1998 World Cup in France. He also shot images for Canon’s latest advertising campaign and is co-author of a number of books.

Shaun Botterill is based in Northampton, England.

Bridget Burns

When she is not blogging, Bridget is researching photos for a mix of advertising, corporate and media clients. Coming from the same gene pool that established The Western Costume Company, she grew up in Los Angeles. She was raised by practical, salt-of-the-earth folks and went to schools with phone directories that read like a Hollywood Rolodex.

Voted “most original dresser” (read: worst dresser) in 8th grade, she continued to be interested in fashion until this very moment. Bridget majored in art history at Barnard College and spent some time in Portland, Oregon working at a book store, learning about photography and writing about music. You might see her in New York photographing obscure performers.

Rebecca Butala

While dancing with a Los Angeles-based dance group, Rebecca took a “day job” at Allsport/Getty Images in 1994. With the continued monotony of re-filing some of the best sports photographs in the world, she eventually landed ringside assisting a staff photographer at the Holyfield-Tyson II, The Bite Fight. She was hooked.

Little did she know the day job would take her around the world to Olympic Games, tennis and golf championships, world championships of hockey, swimming and athletics as well as yearly trips to the World Series, Stanley Cup Finals and the Super Bowl.

“Despite all the travel, what really drives me are the pictures. I am fortunate to work with some of the finest sports photographers with whom I have made friendships over the past 13 years.”

Jonathan Daniel

Jonathan Daniel joined the staff of Getty Images/Sport as a full-time staff photographer after a 17 year career as a free-lance sports photographer based in Chicago. Daniel spent the early part of his career as an award-winning photographer for a suburban Chicago newspaper. An original contract photographer with Allsport USA, now Getty Images/Sport, starting in 1988, Daniel covers all major sports including the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NHL, the MLS, the PGA and WPGA, World Cup Soccer, NASCAR and a wide variety of collegiate, Olympic and amateur sports. His clients have included Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Sport and Inside Sports magazines, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Time, Newsweek, the Upper Deck Company, the New York Times, ESPN the Magazine, The National Sports Daily and many others. His work has appeared in electronic media and advertising as well as hundreds of national and international publications all over the world.

Daniel was born in Lynchburg, Virginia but has lived the majority of his life in Chicago. He attended the University of Tennessee, majoring in Theatre, with other primary studies in journalism. He and his family, wife Jinger, son Luis and two Whippets, currently split their time residing in New Berlin, Wisconsin and Chicago.

Pam Grossman
Pam Grossman is a creative researcher at Getty Images. While this sounds like a completely fabricated job title, it is, in fact, a very real one that consists of analyzing the visual landscape and studying cultural behavior to help determine what pictures our photographers should be creating. She studied anthropology and art at NYU because she thought they were fascinating and fun, but could not have imagined a job that actually, well, utilized her degree. She is thrilled to bits that she has found one. Also, she is a total mythology dork whose heart skips a beat at the mere mention of the word “centaur.”

Chris Hondros

Chris Hondros is a staff photographer for Getty Images. After studying English Literature at North Carolina State in 1993 and conducting his graduate work in photojournalism at Ohio University, Hondros moved to New York to concentrate on international reporting. Since then, he has covered assignments in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq and Liberia.

He was awarded USAID Photojournalism Grant in 1999 and was a fellow at the Pew Fellowship for International Reporting at Johns Hopkins University in 2007. Hondros’ images have received dozens of awards including honors from World Press Photo, the National Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L’Image in France and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York. In 2004, Hondros was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia.

Today, he is living in New York City.

Harry How

With a bachelor’s degree in economics, Harry put his skills to work as a bicycle courier in Toronto, then as a roller blading teacher in Taipei. But his love for sports and photography lead him to the California sunshine when he joined Allsport/Getty Images in 1997 and has been living out of a suitcase ever since.

Like his contemporaries he has worked at the Olympic Games, Super Bowl, World Series, The Masters and his work has appeared in all of the leading publications: Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, and Time. His most satisfying moment as a photographer came when he was mistaken as a competitor at the Ironman race in Hawaii.

Harry’s run from immigration authorities and his pursuit of food, wine and another stamp in his passport lead him to the Getty Images London office where he spent a year honing his photography skills.

Jed Jacobsohn
Jed Jacobsohn started interning for Allsport while still in college at Syracuse University back in 1992. Jed has always had in interest in baseball, starting back in his youth in Northern California playing on various little league teams. His interest in photography started while in high school at Berkeley High when he had an opportunity to cover sports in the Bay Area with the news agency United Press International. Jed worked his first World Series in 1990, mostly developing and printing news photos for the UPI wire as the Oakland Athletics were swept by the Cincinnati Reds. Jed later joined Allsport/Getty full time in 1995 and will be covering his 10th World Series.

“The thing that is special about shooting baseball, especially at the World Series, is that any moment within the 3-4 hour span of the game can be the most telling, important moment that has to be captured and conveyed to the reader. As a baseball photographer, you have to be ready at all times and even sometimes go beyond that, and actually anticipate what may happen and where.”

Jed has won numerous awards in his career including taking third place last year in the Baseball Hall of Fame contest. His baseball World Series photographs has appeared in many publications over the years, including the cover of Sports Illustrated for the White Sox in 2005 and the cover of Time magazine for the Red Sox in 2004. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Ross Kinnaird
Kinnaird has worked for Getty Images for over 10 years. During his sports photography career, he has covered numerous top UK and international events, including three Olympic Games, three football World Cups, three rugby World Cups, three cricket World Cups, three football European Championships and five golf Ryder Cups. He has also won and been highly commended several times in a number of the industry’s top photographic competitions.

Bryn Lennon
Lennon has worked for Getty Images for over five years. Before embarking on a sports photography career, he studied the subject at The London College of Printing. Lennon has since covered a variety of events including, the winter Olympics (Salt Lake and Turin), the summer Olympics (Athens), the World Cup (Korea), 75 Formula One races, Le Mans, Moto GP and the World Rally.

Donald Miralle

Donald Miralle began his photography career freelancing for portrait and architectural photographers while at art school at the University of California, Los Angeles. Upon completion of his B.A. in Fine Arts in 1997, he landed a job with the world-renowned sports imagery agency Allsport.

For nearly a decade he has had the opportunity to cover sporting events around the world including the Winter and Summer Olympic Games, The Super Bowl, The World Series, The Stanley Cup Playoffs, The US Open of Golf, the World Swimming Championships and the Indianapolis 500.

Since Allsport became part of Getty Images, as a staff photographer, Donald has experienced shooting commercial print ads for Nike, Gatorade, Toyota, Addidas, Titelist, Visa and Wheaties and has had the chance to travel extensively and branch out into nature and travel photography.

Donald currently resides in San Diego, California with his wife Lauren and their dog Leo.

John Moore

John Moore, from Irving, Texas, is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images based in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he has lived with his family for more than 3 years. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in late 1990, Moore began his international career with the Associated Press. During almost 14 years with the AP, he was based in Nicaragua, India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt, and photographed in more than 80 countries on five continents. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Moore has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covering the US and British military in some of the world’s most dangerous combat zones.

Since joining Getty Images in 2005, Moore has worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, covering the Israel-Lebanon conflict of 2006. In 2007 he was on assignment three times in Iraq, once in Afghanistan and spent much of the rest of the year covering Pakistan’s slide into instability, culminating in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Moore has won photography awards from the Overseas Press Club, The Society of Professional Journalists, and World Press. He was also on a team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the war in Iraq.

Vladimir Rys
Vladimir Rhys was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1978. He developed an interest in photography as a teenager while spending evenings photographing fascinating people and sights in Prague’s old town. A self taught photographer, Vladimir was particularly interested in black and white photography which he used to develop in his dark room at home. He was also an avid football player, but having suffered a severe knee injury he hung up his boots and turned his energy to sports photography.

In 1996, Rys joined Sport, the Czech Republic’s leading daily newspaper as a staff photographer where he stayed for two years. In 1998, he moved to join the monthly football magazine, Hat trick, before transferring to Bongarts Sportfotografie in Germany. Vladimir has won numerous awards for his work at sporting events including Wimbledon and the 2004 Athens Olympics and joined Getty Images Germany in January 2005.

Tom Stoddart

Tom has traveled to over 50 countries, exposed thousands of rolls of film and met everyone from kings to killers along the way.

He began his photographic career on a local newspaper in his native North-East of England. In 1978, he moved to London and began working freelance for publications such as the Sunday Times and Time Magazine.

During a long and varied career he has witnessed such international events as the war in Lebanon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Nelson Mandela and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. His recent extensive work on the catastrophic AIDS pandemic blighting Africa has been widely published and exhibited.

Now established as one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, Tom is represented by, and works closely with, Getty Images to produce powerful photo-essays on the serious world issues of our time.

Mario Tama

Mario Tama studied photojournalism at Rochester Institute of Technology where he graduated with a BFA in 1993. After graduation he began shooting for the Daily Journal newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C. He then freelanced for The Washington Post and Agence France-Presse in Washington.

Mario joined Getty Images as a staff photographer in 2001 and has since covered several global events including September 11, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the funeral of Pope John Paul II and more recently Hurricane Katrina – before, during and after the storm. He has received numerous awards from Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Competition and the White House News Photographers Association.

His work on Baghdad’s orphans was exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image in France and his photographs from Hurricane Katrina were featured in National Geographic, Newsweek and newspapers worldwide. In 2006 he was named Photographer of the Year by the New York Press Photographers Association.

Denise Waggoner

Get ready to change the way you see the world.

Denise Waggoner has made a career of studying the meaning, application and impact of images around the world. As a pioneer in the field of visual trends forecasting, Denise leads a global team of Getty Images researchers who study the use of photographs, film and illustrations across an expanding media platforms. The team identifies current and future trends in imagery, in turn supplying advertising, marketing and publishing professionals with imagery that will resonate strongly with target audiences and sway purchase decisions.

With a deep understanding of the creative process and vast personal knowledge of the latest visual trends, Denise provides unique insight into the global language of imagery. She has developed proprietary forecasting methods for working with researchers, analyzing imagery trends across the advertising, marketing and publishing industries, as well as imagery buying trends from the Getty Images Web site.

Her team’s research topics include marketing to matures, how minorities appear in advertising, the use of imagery around environmental issues and the role of self in society. Select primary research findings are available through MAP reports at gettyimages.com.

Denise travels the world to major advertising and publishing events where she shares her expertise in tracking and predicting imagery trends that will shape the future.

Andrew H. Walker
Andrew H. Walker has been a celebrity and fashion photographer and portraitist for ten years. He began as a youth with portraiture photography as his first love and quickly moved on to work with legendary photographer Patrick McMullan. Currently Andrew works with the world’s premiere global entertainment photo agency, Getty Images.

Walker’s pictures have appeared in Vogue, The New York Times, People, US Weekly, Newsweek, Gotham, New York Magazine and many other print and broadcast media outlets.

Walker has photographed the best of the runway, parties and backstage happenings at New York’s Fashion Week for the past five years. He has also shot some of the world’s most high profile red carpet galas, music award shows and film festivals, this list includes the MTV Music Awards, the Tribeca and Dubai Film Festivals, the Great Wall of China Fashion Show among others.

His genuine, amiable style has allowed him to capture each of his subjects with sensitivity and respect. Andrew was born in Keene, New Hampshire and now lives and regularly works in New York City.