“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” Henri Cartier-Bresson

I took this photo of Chris as he was shooting me from the safety of his rock
LD: Tell us about your upbringing, and what brought you to South Africa from the UK.

Local historian Ulric Roberts in the the Schaap River Canyon in Namaqualand © Chris Hitchcock
LD: I know you ditched another career for the adventures of photography. When did you take that leap?

Comrades legend Bob de la Motte and Kathleen Mc Quaide at SOX © Chris Hitchcock
LD: You cover various sports, and trail running isn’t the most dramatic of them. Tell us about your coverage of triathlon and other sports.

Another SOX image. Where else do you get to pull yourself across a river on a pontoon during a race? © Chris Hitchcock
LD: There must be a few hair-raising moments in your memory bank. Give us those gories!

Captured during a race in the service tunnel of the Du Toits Kloof tunnel © Chris Hitchcock
LD: What has been your most memorable trail running shoot and why?

Runner about to descend into the Blue Mine section in the Goegap Nature Reserve at Namaqua Quest © Chris Hitchcock
LD: What has been the most compromising position you’ve had to be in for a shoot?
LD: If you had a dream shoot, what and where would that be?

Chris’s buddy Marinda Lindeque having a ‘no frikken way’ moment on some random run near Caledon © Chris Hitchcock

The solitude of a lone runner in a wheat field near Caledon in the Western Cape © Chris Hitchcock

Shot on the Mountain Warrior Trail Run 2012. Dion Middlekoop (still a relatively young man then) was first through the river that was swollen with frozen snow © Chris Hitchcock

An icy pre-race morning at the Namaqua Quest 3-day trail run © Chris Hitchcock

The 3-day SOX trail run goes through areas of the Knysna indigenous forest that the general public isn’t allowed to enter © Chris Hitchcock

Kim Stephens running to her wedding © Chris Hitchcock
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