Posted by By JAKE SUTERA, Photography by HANNAH RYU
J Camp Live! Staff
One by one the photos flashed across the screen: Muhammad Ali towering over a defeated Sonny Liston, a swimmer’s face planted against a diving board, a young girl playing basketball inside a Chinese cave.
These images deliver what James Colton calls the “oooh” factor. He’s the photography editor at Sports Illustrated magazine, and it’s his job to draw readers into his magazine with the most spectacular sports photos of the week.
“Whether it’s a news photo or a sports photo, it has to affect you, move you in some way. It needs the “oooh” factor, something that reaches into your throat and tugs at your heart. For a photo to be effective, it must be affective.”
Here at his fifth consecutive J Camp, Colton has a wealth of knowledge in the industry, having started his career more than 35 years ago. He has effortlessly made the transition from news to sports photography, maintaining that “quality comes first, content comes second.”
In a fascinating exchange, Colton asked the students to share something they recall about historical events in the world that happened prior to their birth. As soon as these dates was uttered, whether it was Pearl Harbor or the Vietnam War, every hand shot up, all with an iconic photograph from this event etched in their mind. Colton had a back story for each picture, giving students an inside look at the sometimes unfair world of photography.
The memorable photograph from the Oklahoma City bombing in 1994, a firefighter holding a bloodied child, was captured by two different people. One of them however lost the rights to their photograph. Because he was working at the time he took the photograph, the photo became property of his company. This unfortunate tale was one of many stories Colton told that added another dimension to our experience.
Growing up in a photography filled household, his mother being the arts editor of People magazine and his father having created television technology that is still used today, Colton was exposed to this field at an early age. He admitted that shooting photography isn’t his strength, but Colton does have a keen eye for the art. He began his career in 1972 as the Associated Press’s color picture editor. From there he climbed the ranks of photography editing, stopping at Newsweek and Sipa Press, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as the director of photography. From there he finally settled into his current job at Sports Illustrated, one that he calls “the greatest job in the world.”
“Where else do you get to have the best photos in the world put on your desk every day?,” Colton added.
Colton chooses the pictures for the “Leading Off” section of Sports Illustrated, the three centerfolds at the front of the publication. He makes these selections in an attempt to “introduce sports to the public that wouldn’t normally be seen in our magazine.” He candidly admitted that basketball delivers repetitive pictures, while the Olympics are the most exciting time for sports photography.
Colton’s illustrious career has garnered him various awards such as the “Golden Career Award” given by the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in 2004 and he has been acknowledged as one of the “100 most important people in photography” by American photo magazine. To have a man with his knowledge and experience in the field of photography talk to our students was a once in a lifetime experience.
“You are our future,” Colton said. “Any time you get a group of young people pursuing something, I’m all for it. You’ve got to give back. If I helped just one person here today, it will have been worth it.”
(View examples of his work at http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/)
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