SLAM Magazine Cover #225
Jon Lopez Photography
by Jon Lopez
3y ago
SLAM Magazine is the basketball bible. The scripture to the game I love. My bedroom walls were adorned by many a SLAM-A-DA-MONTH and other iconic imagery featured within its pages. So you can imagine the warm and toasty feeling I got when I received a call to shoot the cover for issue #225 featuring three high school phenoms. I was especially proud to learn that the subjects were Josh Christopher, Sharife Cooper, and Jalen Green—all Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) alumni whom I’ve photographed many times throughout their high school tenure. Peep some of the outtakes and the final co ..read more
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Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone, Shooting Adventure Sports with Red Bull
Jon Lopez Photography
by Jon Lopez
4y ago
Shooting Adventure Sports Red Bull Academy. Austin, TX If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive. The nucleus of greatness is learning. Many other things are important to pursuing maximum potential—time, commitment, industriousness, and passion to name a few—but in order to be truly great, we will experience failure and if we don’t learn from our failures, then progress is nearly impossible. I’ve become passionate about learning over the years and one way I learn is through getting out of my comfort zone. I made this portrait of Red Bull athlete Jake Wooten at House Park in Austin, TX just before ..read more
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I Traveled to China to Document the FIBA World Cup
Jon Lopez Photography
by Jon Lopez
4y ago
The 2019 FIBA BASKETBALL WORLD CUP My experience creating my shots from these sidelines This World Cup—my second—was one of great learning opportunities, class, and respect for the game and its legends. 32 national teams competed for medals in eight cities throughout China in 2019. I documented the action from Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beijing.  Thanasis Antetokounmpo of Greece attempts a reverse layup during the ..read more
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2019 One Peachy Moment
Jon Lopez Photography
by Jon Lopez
5y ago
Nike’s Peach Jam is the crown jewel of grassroots basketball and I have been privileged to document the event for the past six years. In 2019 I teamed up with an incredible group of talented storytellers to help me bring a vision of mine that has been brewing for years to life. The result is One Peachy Moment. Special thank you to Sean Phazes, Shawn Deloney, Eric Delgado, Alex Woodhouse, Royce Paris, Aldin Medunjanin, Uri Israel, Jay Spinks, Emir Lewis, and Miles Franklyn for sharing their tremendous talents with me for one special week. And thank you to the good people of the EYBL who gave ..read more
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