Steel City · USL League Two · Midfielder · #17 · USA · 25 yrs
After a strong start to training camp, new Eintracht Frankfurt head coach Adi Hütter has declared himself impressed with the work of Germany U21 fullback Elias Baum. The 20-year-old’s potential –...
Using a digital flat-bed scanner, our picture editor Jonny Weeks adapts some of his favourite images from the tournament and explores the trend of alternative photographyAlthough I’ve edited thousands of football photographs over the years, I’ve never attended a World Cup match. I envy those who get to be pitchside with their cameras for such big events. Yet, as I’ve discovered during this tournament, you don’t have to be there to create experimental images of the tournament.Slit-scanning is an alternative photographic process that I first tried many years ago. Using a narrow slit inside an analogue camera, the photographer winds a roll of film past the aperture to record the flow of time. It’s a tricky and laborious technique which produces curiously distorted results – almost like celebrating the problem of “rolling shutter”, which has vexed photographers for generations. Continue reading...