Kevin Quigley
Mail Sport
In 2024 Andy covered, The football European Championships, two world title boxing fights ,Cheltenham, FA Cup Final, The Premier League, Rugby Tests and other major sports events for The Mail. The pictures below are either atmospheric sports images or front page news images, they show a high degree of skill with light and show a considered view of Boxing, sports portraiture and Football
Kevin’s shot from Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight world title fight with Daniel Dubois at Wembley stadium where he was knocked out by the young contender. The photographer has to anticipate when the fighter will punched as well as reacting to the shot, there is only truly a fraction of a second to work with. Here is the moment Anthony Joshua is a sleep on the rope from the ferocias shot Daniel hit him unconscious with (21st September 2024)
England beat Holland to reach the final of the European championships. England manager who was reserved throughout the tournament finally let his emotions out as England recorded their late victory over a stubborn Dutch side. At the end of the Game Southgate erupted. Kevin was in the very sport to capture the sheer joy and emotion of the England Manager (10th July 2024)
Oleksander Usyk, Heavyweight champion of the World. Kevin was sent on assignement to visit Usyk in his training camp hidden away in Spain. He was only allowed to photograph Oleksander in the location due to his high profile nature with a fear on his life from the Russian army after defending his country in the war. Being such a high profile figure Kevin felt he wanted to show off Oleksander’s patriotic side by lighting his face up with the colours of Ukraine to create this powerful image of power and strength. (7th May 2024)