428: Carrie Giordano - Photographing Baseball’s Greatest Moments

In this episode of F-Stop Collaborate and Listen, host Matt Payne sits down with acclaimed sports photographer Carrie Giordano, one of the team photographers for the LA Dodgers and LA Rams. Carrie shares her fascinating journey from falling in love with photography in her Ohio childhood, through early burnout, to discovering her passion for sports photography in Los Angeles. She discusses the unique challenges, adrenaline, and emotional highs of photographing high-stakes professional sporting events like the World Series and championship parades, as well as the technical and logistical demands of the fast-paced environment. Carrie also highlights how her background in landscape photography shapes her creative vision, offers practical career advice for aspiring sports photographers, and opens up about balancing the demands of career and motherhood.
 
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Links:

• Carrie Giordano on Instagram
• Mountain Light by Galen Rowell
• Moab Photography Symposium
• Carrie's Feature in Time Magazine for Kids
• My OnLandscape Article on Torsten Pull
• Support the podcast on Patreon