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Throughout this project I will be exploring various different sports photographers, mainly focusing on football. I will be doing this for numerous reasons, the main reasons are to allow me to gain more information about the world of sports photography and to prepare me for going into the working world of sports photography. For this, I will be looking at a range of different photographers and seeing what advice they give to sports photographers who are about to go into the world of photography and doing it as a profession. My industry interaction was a quite informative aspect of my work as I had to give two different people some work for them to use in their publications. This work would go on to not be used in the publications and this taught me a lot about how volatile publications can be and how one day your work can go from being used to not be. This I felt is a vital learning experience in the world of photography as this is something that is likely to occur numerous times ...

How photography has changed grassroots football

Grassroots football is according to FIFA a game that aims to develop the game from the local level and mainly comprises of amateur players basically, this means any part of the game that is not professional. Over the past 10-15 years, grassroots football has grown in popularity and I will be investigating what role photography has played in this surge in popularity. In recent years grassroots football has seen a surge in popularity, a factor in this is photography. The growing popularity over the same time frame, the past 10-15 years, has allowed photographers to share their images to a wider audience, this has then meant that more people can view these images and then they may want to attend these grassroots games to increase popularity. This question was originally posed due to ongoing growth of grassroots football in recent years following an enormous investment from the FA in 2015. This question was generated as for a number of years my main interests in photography have be...