On 9th February 2017, the one year countdown to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea began. We marked the occasion by releasing through Getty Images a portrait of Lizzy Yarnold the skeleton bobsleigh slider who won Britain’s only gold medal of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Alex Livesey went down to Lizzy’s training…
We’re proud to announce the news that Alex Livesey has been shortlisted in three out of the five categories at the 2016 SJA Sports Photography Awards. Yesterday the SJA published the shortlisted contenders for five photography categories with Alex being named in the Sports Picture, Sports Portfolio and the Rio 2016 Portfolio Awards. The winner…
As we move in to the New Year it’s time to put together our best sports images from 2016 for the various competitions which have deadlines looming. Even though I don’t put a lot of emphasis on winning awards I do like putting a portfolio of 10 images together annually to gauge how the year…
So, it’s nearly four weeks since returning from Rio with Team GB and I’m back off to Rio again for the Paralympics. This time I’m not covering the Paralympics as an event though. The previous homecoming commission went so well with Team GB that British Airways have asked Getty Images if they could commission me…