Dean Treml

I was seven years old when I first discovered I could grab my mother`s camera and take photos that would become unrepeatable moments in life… then a few years of infuriating her by using up her film followed, before I was given my first camera, and Agfa Clack 120. Aged 14, I bought a 35mm rangefinder, then a year or so later upgraded to an SLR. Soon after all thoughts of being a marine biologist were quickly replaced with photography. Newspaper photography, agency photography with AFP & Getty Images, and the values of photojournalism and photographic integrity set my path and a love of black and white.

Four decades later I`m still shooting with the same enthusiasm as when I was an experimental little kid. I`ve managed to get to shoot a few events that are high on the sports photographers hit-list, the 24 hours of Le Mans, Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, America’s Cup and International Rugby, amongst other things, and happily I have been photographing the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series since its inception in 2009, but I`m still just as happy photographing kids playing football in a street or a skateboarder trying to nail a lonely kick-flip in a park. I can count The New York Times, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated among my publication credits, and that always feels good, but the human aspect of capturing peoples moments of triumph, failure and all aspects in between fire me more than anything.