ABOUT · COLE @ A.C MEDIA
The photographer
I wished I’d had
as an athlete.
So I decided to make it.
Student of the game. Photographer. Spikeball player. Building A.C Media in the Southern Tier since 2023.
I · THE ORIGIN
I grew up in a uniform,
then I picked up a camera.
I played sports my whole life. Soccer, basketball, baseball. And now competitive Spikeball. I sat for the senior pictures and team media days you’re supposed to sit for, and the photos that came back never looked like the person inside the jersey.
I started A.C Media because I wanted to be the photographer I never had. Someone who could “capture” me. Someone who could take a photo and have it actually be me.
The work I make now is the work I would have wanted then.
II · SOME OF MY PHOTOS
FRAME BTS·01
bing softball · media day
III · RECEIPTS
70+ days.
40+ sessions.
3 years.
IV · OFF THE CLOCK
I’m still a player too.
I play competitive Spikeball. I also play the game of photography. I study game film the same way I study match film. I learn from every session and take it into the next one. Most of what I know about photographing athletes I learned by being one. Most of what I know about photographing seniors I learned by being a kid who hated being photographed.
The empathy is the job. The camera follows.
V · LET’S WORK