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About Jeff Lewis - Sports Photographer
What makes a sports photographer great? A love of both sports and photography, for starters. Renowned sports photographer Jeff Lewis is a lifelong sports fan (especially football) and has loved photography since boyhood. His accomplishments include being an Associated Press photographer since 2005, shooting the World Series, NBA Playoffs, and countless important pro football games and other events for the AP. He was also a floor photographer for the Lakers from 2005 to 2015. Jeff was a Rams photographer for 8 years beginning 2016 through 2024. Jeff was an official SoFi photographer during those years after Sofi was completed.
His first dream was to become a football player, so he joined West L.A. College’s football team and played wide receiver. As fate would have it, Keshawn Johnson was the other wide receiver. It was while watching and playing alongside Keshawn that Jeff had a life-changing realization: “The only way I was ever going to get on an NFL playing field was as a photographer!”
Photography came naturally to Jeff. Studying art and photography in college gave him the knowledge and background he needed to develop a mastery of light and composition. Over time, he also developed a signature stance—shooting the players from his knees. “When you shoot a superhero,” he explains, “they are larger than life. And when you are shooting up at them, you bring their actions to life.”
Jeff has photographed twelve of the past thirteen Super Bowls, missing only the pandemic-year game (which no one attended). This past year, Jeff won a Hall of Fame Award for a photo he took of Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf scoring a touchdown against the Chicago Bears. In the past 3 years Jeff has continued his mastery of photographic art, by shooting university football and basketball games. The result of Jeff's talent speaks for its self
Freezing the Moment
By Sally Walsh Curator and Art Critic
The art of looking becomes a form of prayer for the photographer. Photography is an art of observation. Jeff Lewis’s ‘observation,’ has given him the lifetime photographic achievement of being one of the top sports photographers of today.
Lewis’s photography stands apart for it’s profound, creative connection to the payer’s psyche, understanding of an athlete’s movement and anticipation on the field for an important game play.
Lewis captures the quintessential moment of a play he calls it, ‘freezing the moment.’ There are plays in a game that nobody might see if they were not photographed. Lewis’s sense of composition something often lacking in sports photography is without fault.
Recently Lewis has created an impressive collection of portrait work. Here Lewis’s captures the spirit of the player. His haunting portrait of Kobe Bryant is a photographic masterpiece.
