Damiris Dantos
Damiris Dantos do Amaral
Damiris is an international star with extensive experience in FIBA and WNBA basketball. Representing Brazil, she has won three gold and three bronze medals in International Competitions. She has participated in two Olympic Games and two World Cups.
But beyond her successes on the field, Damiris is an example of effort and improvement. A fighter raised in a humble family, who always encouraged her to practice sports and thanks to which she has been overcoming all the obstacles she has encountered in life without losing her smile.
After practicing soccer, volleyball, dance and chess; Janeth Arcain's academy gave her the opportunity to start playing basketball at the age of 13 and pursue her dream of becoming a professional at 17.
Damiris is a cheerful, family-oriented person, proud of her origins and very active in supporting social causes.
Matias Delacroix
Matias Delacroix
Matias Delacroix was born in 1989 in Buenos Aires, Argentina - and grew up in Chile where he studied graphic design and history of arts. He has worked for more than 5 years as a photographer for international agencies covering major news and sports events in Latin America and around the world.
He currently collaborates daily with the Associated Press. Based in Venezuela, he has recently cover events for AP such as the social outbreak, protests and presidential elections in Chile, the assassination of the president Jovenel Moise and the earthquake aftermath in Haiti and the migrant crisis, among many others.
In 2021, he won first place in the FIBA Photo contest (The International Basketball Federation).
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Sandy El Ghorayeb
Sandy El Ghorayeb
One's passion is a true source of individual personality. I’m lucky to have found an opportunity for me to combine two of my passions in life: Photography and Sports.
My love for sports started since I was a little kid, always waiting and excited to watch Basketball & Football games and cheer for my favorite teams. While I was in college, my brother bought me my first camera and that’s when I discovered my love for photography and started planning to develop my passion for this hobby.
Photography is a way to express myself to others and show them the world through my eyes. And that’s a powerful ability that I will always cherish.
The whole concept of Sports Photography to me is magnetic. It’s a tool to express my love for the game and give the fans the possibility to share with the players the special moments, the funny and sad reactions, the great moves and shots; they can simply relive the game while browsing through the photos.
For me, the stadium/the field is my escape of all life’s stress and problems. I found my passion in life through it and I want to share it with you.
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Lonza Gordon
Lonza Gordon
For the past nine years, Lonza has been the senior video editor and associate producer of the weekly television program FIBA World Basketball.
Over this time, her passion for basketball has rapidly grown. From being a part-time fan in the early 90s, to immersing herself in anything hoops related.
Lonza is also a video camera operator, and has had the opportunity to shoot in the US with the NBA and at numerous FIBA events including two Men’s World Cups, and two Women’s World Cups.
She has been involved with the video promotion of a number of international cycling events in her home country of Australia.
With a keen interest in sports photography, Lonza has also photographed Australian Rules Country Football and Netball action for junior and senior competitions.
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Temiri Hunter
Temiri Hunter
Temiri Hunter was immersed in basketball from an early age. The Tahitian's family ran her local club. She has been a player, coach and referee within the club that she is now the President of. She is also Vice-President of the Tahitian Basketball Federation, responsible for local competitions.
Her second passion is photography. As a teenager, she put all her savings into purchasing a camera, to take pictures of landscapes, her culture but also basketball games. Developing in visual art through her studies and subsequently making it her profession as a graphic designer was a logical continuation of all her efforts.
This second passion represents for Temiri another way of being involved in basketball, by making posters to promote their events or by making their first 3x3 basketball logo, a development project that is close to her heart for her neighborhood organizations, but also for the islands, where 3x3 is more suited to their environment.
Ina
Ina
Ina, whose real name is Ndeye Fatou Thiam is a young woman born in Dakar, Senegal.
In 2011, she joined Africulturban, an association dedicated to hip-hop and urban cultures where she specialized in recording techniques with the Urban Musik studio. Through Africulturban’s “The Hip Hop Akademy”, she benefited from an audiovisual training and participated in 2012 to the Avignon Festival (France).
In 2013, Ina starts to focus more on artistic photography under the guidance of Senegalese filmmaker Fatou Kandé Senghor.
As a photographer interested in sports including basketball, she was invited in October 2016 to the Forum on Sport and Culture for Women, organized by the African Women Development Fund (AWDF) in Accra, Ghana.
Within Africulturban, Ina also offers photography lessons to young ex-prisoners as part of the Youth Urban Media Academy (YUMA) reintegration project.
In 2017, Ina worked with Plan International to cover some of their projects in the Central African Republic such as ‘Child Soldiers’ about unaccompanied minors and schools destroyed during the country’s crisis between 2013 and 2014. In 2017, she represented Senegalese photography in the 8th ‘Jeux de La Francophonie’ organized in Côte d'Ivoire.
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Richard JUILLIART
Richard JUILLIART
Four times official Olympic Games photographer, Richard covered all sports and International Olympic Committee events, in Torino, Beijing, Vancouver and London. He also captured the future great Olympians at the first two Youth Olympic games in Singapore and Innsbruck as per the request of the IOC. In addition to the Games, Richard often receives requests to work for International Sport Federations and is regularly commissioned by newspapers from around the world.
Since 2006, his multi-facetted talent and experience led Richard to work for several Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and other private institutions. Through NGO client, Krousar Thmey, he depicted the daily life of street children in Cambodia. Richard reported on the life of amputees in Bosnia and has also captured the full impact of nature’s disasters; the tsunami in Indonesia and the earthquake in Haiti.
Ryan O’Leary
Ryan O’Leary
Ryan O'Leary grew up watching Golden State Warrior games in Oakland, California. His love for basketball grew once his oldest son Milo discovered basketball and became obsessed with the game. Finding the best basketball courts is a daily activity at home in Sweden and in family journeys to New Zealand and the Philippines, and when back in America.
In 2018, the Marketing Consultant became co-owner of “Courts of the World”, which has built the largest database of outdoor basketball courts. In 2021, the original basketball court map organization partnered with FIBA, and today has over 43,000 courts and venues, helping millions of court-seeking players see photos and court reviews.
O’Leary manages the day-to-day growth of www.courtsoftheworld.com and posts his original photos at www.instagram.com/basketball.courtsoftheworld.
GABRIELA MENA
GABRIELA MENA
Gabriela Mena was born into a basketball family, “the sport was not only lived, but sweated and even bled”, all members were basketball players and coaches, obsessed with the game. “I lived on the court, I was always there, sometimes helping hydrate thirsty players, the one holding a clipboard or being a medical assistant to my mom and then as a player”.
However, the real trigger happened when she was nine years old and was gifted her first camera just when the 2002 Central American games were held in El Salvador, “I took some poorly framed photos of the players backstage, action shots and of course exclusive photos of the team.
Something happened that night, I was hooked, it made my heartbeat faster and gave me goosebumps, seeing the flashes bouncing on the court, hearing the cries of encouragement, that feeling captured me, became indispensable and each year it grew more, and it was a kind of calling to finally find my vocation, Basketball.”
MARTIN REDONDO
MARTIN REDONDO
Martín Redondo was born in 1978 in Valladolid (Spain) and grew up in Madrid where he studied graphic design and illustration.
Passionate about basketball and shoes from a very young age, he has managed to merge his 2 passions in his profession, becoming one of the most famous shoe customizers in the world.
He is an active collaborator in numerous artistic projects related to basketball and has a long list of elite players who have worn his creations on the courts around the globe, including those of the NBA, at the feet of figures like Luka Doncic.
The Olympic Bronze Medalist in triple jump, Ana Peleteiro, or the World Boxing Champion of the mini flighweight, Joana Pastrana or the footballer of the F.C: Barcelona Pedri González are some of the stars of other sports that have worn his designs.