All sports photography is not the same...
David Ashdown was Chief Sports Photographer for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday for 25 years . Having joined at the launch of the paper he was its longest serving staff photographer. He won many prestigious awards twice claiming the SJA Sports Photographer of the Year award. Other prestigious awards include the International Olympic Committees World Wide Best of Sport Award, the Ilford Photographer of the Year 3 times, European Sports Photographer of the Year as well as Nikon Sports Photographer of the Year. As a lifelong Nikon user, he was one of a handful of photographers asked by Nikon to test it's new cameras before commercial launch.