Sol Neelman
Sol Neelman is a failed-athlete-turneds-sports-photographer hailing from Portlandia, the land of the weird.
After winning a Pulitzer Prize with colleagues at The Oregonian, he left his staff newspaper job to pursue a life-long project documenting sports culture around the globe.
In 2011, Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany published his first photobook, “Weird Sports.” His third book, cleverly titled “Weird Sports 3,” goes to press this year. His work has been published in everything from The McMinnville (Ore.) News-Register to National Geographic.
Advertising clients include small startups like Nike, Adidas, and Clif Bar.