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Over the last few decades, Hamish Blair has travelled the world in pursuit of the biggest stories in live sport. Whether shooting the Olympic Games, Ashes cricket, Champions League soccer or the Commonwealth Games, he’s earned a stellar reputation for capturing the most high-pressure moments in sporting history.
Hamish’s career began at Sporting Pix, the Melbourne sports photography agency.
“I suppose it was an informal apprenticeship, ” he says. “I couriered film from sporting events, did film processing, editing and scanning”
He soon went full time, shooting everything from AFL to basketball, and travelled overseas to cover the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
New opportunities arose when Sporting Pix was sold to Getty Images in 1998, which saw Hamish spend a decade covering the Australian cricket team’s tours, as well as the Sydney summer Olympic Games.
“In 2007, I
