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Seeing Rupert's post, with Ezra lusk at the LLQA got me thinking of all the cool photos the man has provided us from a raw fan/racer perspective.
Which lead me to thinking who are the MT. Rushmore photographers of our sport??
- Cudby
- Bdw (brown dog wilson)
- TFS
- GuyB
Many more.
So this brings me to the question what names go on the mx/sx mt rushmore of photographers?(Videographers don't count for this)
Mike Emery
Easy!!!! PAUL BUCKLEY!!
Jim Gianatsis
Steve Bruhn
Tom Szalay
The guy has a Sandberm named after him!
LEGEND!!!
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Show me a good Cudby shot?
Mt Rushmore means you're limited to 4, correct? That makes it tough.
Cudby, Emery, Milan and Buckley? I will admit to having little Knowledge of 80s and early 90s guys.
I'd say it's easily these four, and I'd add TOE as an honorable mention.
Absolutely Paul Buckley, to have a berm named after you at Southwick MX-338 is reason enough. His stuff was absolutely everywhere.
There was this guy… Gibberson I believe… he took some decent shots…
Does anyone remember frank hoppen?
Limiting to 4, in no order, based on impact in the era they shot and quality of work.
Paul Buckley
Chris Hultner
Frank Hoppen
After that for the fourth a toss up between Simon Cudby, Jeff Kardas, Jim Gianatsis. Pick one the other two go to honorable mentions
Honorable mentions
Jack Burnicle
Kinnie Jones
Kit Palmer
Le Big
Garth Milan
Gibby
I'd throw TFS in there for impact
There are and have been a ton of great shooters, some great younger ones now that I've left off, it's a tough call to differentiate out 4 just on quality of work.
Yes
Rupert X Pellett is the Gary Winogrand of moto photography.
@ML512 correctly commented on the past decades of MX Photographers - 70s. 80s, 90s, etc. They were just as good as today's shooters and had to shoot FILM and often did not have auto-focus auto everything cameras. RacerX ran this article in October 2020. I shot moto in the 70's locally in NorCal, at some of the 1977 Nationals, and a few Sears Point TransAM and Carlsbad USGP races. I drooled at some of the images I saw from Jim Gianatsis (Cycle News), Steve French (Brooks Institute of Photography), in Europe from John Huetter (Cycle News), Charlie Morey of Cycle News East.
So many good shooters: In the 90's do not forget Fran Kuhn; in the 2000's Japan's Shiba (https://www.shibaphoto.com/racing) was brilliant; in the 2010's do not discount Roddy Macleod (Will to Victory book as an example), too.
Good post!
I'd submit David Dewhurst as honorable mention. He moved on from moto to promotional automotive stuff, but I think he has or had a coffee table book out there?
There is a picture of Villopoto coming out of the first corner at maybe Muddy Creek (it's a left) and he's hanging waaay off the side, front wheel is in the air, about the only thing touching the ground are his left side rear knobbies. Whoever took it (might have even been FTE) , deserves an honorable mention on the merit of that one photo, it's so bad ass.
Fran Kuhn
Dave Dewhurst
Jack Burnicle.
Jeff Kardas and Ryne Swanberg are to blame for me loving mx photography as much as I do
Pit Row
While that is blasphemous.. I don't need to see another 'Cudby special' at a photoshoot ever again haha
Thom Veety
Aaron Remkus.
RIP, Buddy...
Ray Archer
One of my favorite photos ever.
This one is also great! RV2, fkn animal!
Hell yes!!! Poster quality both of them
I love that Randy Johnson (MLB pitching legend) became a Supercross photographer in retirement. Heros need heros too I guess.
The big unit? Wow, I didn’t know that. Very cool!
Karel Kramer
Ken Faught
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