New sports photography magazine planned

Michael Owen, who formerly worked in a senior role for Canon and Panasonic/Lumix cameras, is now involved in a new sports-photography magazine called 2POINT8. Financial support is being sought from a Kickstarter campaign , so with only a few days left to go, we caught up with Michael to find out more. Michael Owen Why launch a sports magazine now? An ex-Getty and Reuters photographer called Scott Heavey originally came up with the idea. During lockdown he was looking for reading material as he wasn’t able to work… he now runs own agency. Anyway, Scott was getting bored and wanted to read something that inspired him! With far fewer people able to get to sports events over the last year owing to the lockdowns, we believe the appetite for great sports photography is bigger than ever. So where do you come in? Scott and I had stayed in touch since we worked together on a project at Lumix, and he asked if I wanted to help. I was immediately onboard. We both felt that a lot of writing on sports photography, both in print and online, was quite broad, while we wanted to read more about the art of […]

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