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John McDermott is an American/Irish photographer based in northern Italy. He has an extensive career, covering ten Olympics and nine FIFA World Cups for publications like Newsweek. McDermott’s clients include Apple, Adidas, and Goldman Sachs, and his work has been recognized by prestigious organizations. He is known for his versatile style, capturing portraits, sports, landscapes, and more. McDermott also teaches workshops on photography and has ventured into the wine industry.
Dolomites at sunset during a gathering storm.
Corporations, graphic design studios and advertising agencies soon began to seek out McDermott for annual reports and marketing communications, appreciating his clean, graphic style, sensitive use of color and light and the ability to always convey a feeling of authenticity. Some of his commercial clients include Apple, Adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Goldman Sachs, US Airways, Merrill Lynch, Eastman Kodak, Capture One, Nomura Securities, Canon, Sony, International Paper, Bank of America, American Express and Visa. When German sportswear giant Adidas wanted to commemorate it 60th anniversary with a 600-page limited edition book McDermott was entrusted with all the photography to be done in North America.
John has covered ten Olympics and nine FIFA World Cups, usually for Newsweek. Additionally, he served as one of FIFA’s official photographers at two World Cups and three Olympic football tournaments. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts Photography Annual, the Mead Annual Report Show, the IOC Photography Contest, the Graphis Photography Annual, the AIGA Design Annual and the Sasakawa Sports Foundation. John has also served as a member of Apple’s Photographers Advisory Board.
Giuseppe Anzalone and Raquel Romeo, Palermo, Sicily.
John is equally at home on location or in the studio, on the sideline of an international football match or in a high-tech laboratory, a manufacturing facility or an executive suite. His work defies categorization, thanks to his curiosity and diverse interests, which include portraiture, reportage, sports, science and industry, landscape and architecture. He views every day as a new opportunity to learn and to improve. Since moving to Italy he has become involved in creating imagery for the wine industry. In the past ten years John has also been teaching workshops on portraiture and street photography several times each year for the Germany-based IF/Academy.
Dublin, The Great Cities, Time-Life Books
Adidas, 60th Anniversary History Book
John McDermott, Sports Photography at Gallery FNAC, Verona
