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Dazzling images direct from the London Olympic games, perfectly displayed on IFA49.

SOENAR CHAMIDOlympic and sports photographer gives an insight into his images

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Soenar Chamid Photographer

Sharp Shooter - Stunning images from the London 2012 Olympics by Dutch photographer Soenar Chamid are the centrepiece of Innova Art’s stand at Photokina 2012

Soenar Chamid, whose sensational images of the 2012 London Olympics are exhibited on Innova Art’s stand B31, Hall 6, at Photokina, Cologne, was a champion speed skater in his youth. “I was competing in junior national championships and in 1974 I attended the junior world championships,” he said. It was this sport that kickstarted his career as a professional sports photographer.

“I was at a training camp in Russia with several hundred roubles to spend in the assigned local tourist shops so I bought my first Zenith camera. A little later, sitting on the sidelines thanks to a knee injury, I started to photograph my skating friends and colleagues. That injury cost me my skating career but it led to a very successful career in professional photography.”

Perhaps it is this lifelong, intimate connection with sport that has given Soenar his fabled instinct for capturing the critical moment – almost as if he knew an athlete was about to perform an amazing feat in the few crucial seconds before it happens. A talent that has helped him build a customer base of leading international newspapers and magazines, which also includes prestigious organisations such as the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) and the National Olympic Committee. It has made his picture agency, Soenar Chamid Sportfotografie (www.sportfotografie.nl), which supplies photographs by Chamid, his wife Margarita and his son, Sander, one of the world’s most trusted and sought after in the field.

The sports photographer’s craft, perhaps even more than most in the photography field, is about taking the one shot that says it all, that conveys all of the heat of sporting prowess, with newsworthiness as the main driver. You have to be ready at all times, Chamid explains. Know your sport, pick the best vantage point

(“within 15 metres of the goal at a football game, photographing to the right”). Assess the lighting conditions, be flexible – Chamid works with two lenses: 70-200mm and a 400 or 500mm.

He accepts the transitory nature of the business he is in: today’s record-breaking triumph could be eclipsed by the following night’s Champions League final. However, some magical moments will always endure like Chamid’s famous shot of Johan Cruyff and Jesper Olsen’s 1982 ‘tiki-taka’ penalty for Ajax. His shots of triple Olympic swimming champion Pieter van den Hoogenband are regarded as classics and his editorial shots of stars, where more time is available for lighting and composition, continue to be in demand.

The advent of digital photography has changed the business almost entirely, says Chamid. “When I started in sport photography in 1975, I worked mostly in black and white. I sold my pictures to 17 or 18 newspapers, which meant I had to produce 18 prints per picture for delivery to each of the sports desks. It took a lot of work. For jobs outside the Netherlands I travelled with about 50-60 kg of camera gear and darkroom equipment. Nowadays I can edit and update my database on a laptop – and an online database is an excellent tool for selling and distributing my images.”

Chamid’s agency produces prints for customers: “for KNVB and the National Olympic Comittee we produce a lot of prints on paper and canvas. We use an Epson large-format printer that gives splendid results. Sometimes it is printing day and night.”

Chamid is excited about the prospect of an extensive display of his images on the Innova FibaPrint Ultra Smooth Gloss paper. Innova’s ground-breaking range of digital fine art papers and canvas is renowned for the stunning quality of the images it produces and its archival properties. Classic images of world-beating performances deserve award-winning media from Innova Art.

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Brand Management Group will be drawing up in a traditional London red bus and celebrating the sporting highlights of London 2012 on stand B31, in Hall 6.1, at Photokina.The sporting theme will be led by dazzling images direct from the London games, captured by Dutch photographer Soenar Chamid.

Setting the pace for the entire show will be the Kodak Professional range of digital fine art and photo media, an exciting choice of surface textures and formats for the studio printers, professional photographers andenthusiasts. The Professional range of papers have been rigorously tested for optimum image vibrancy and longevity and are backed by Kodak’s excellent reputation for quality and consistency. All papers are supplied in a range of both sheet and roll formats.

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Last year Innova Art won the Fine Art Trade Guild’s Innovation Award for its Jetmaster Display System. Photokina marks the launch of a new, improved JetMaster, with a new filmic release liner and an enhanced pressure sensitive adhesive layer for truly trouble-free handling.

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