Canon Ambassador Nikolai Linares shoots news events and portraits for big-name clients but also makes time for personal photography projects. The Real Old Boys came about by chance after Nikolai happened to see a team of elderly footballers in action while visiting a playground with his son. "I could have just not seen them but I'm very curious," he says. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens at 1/2000 sec, f/5.6 and ISO640. © Nikolai Linares
Born in Elsinore in 1983, Nikolai shoots news events and portraits for national press outlets, alongside multi-award-winning personal projects focusing on sportspeople, from boxers and bullfighters to ice hockey players and ageing footballers. "I just love the stories within sports. There's always a climax, there's always sacrifice, there's so much drama. I used to look at sports categories of competitions and it was often just six images with no story. I thought, 'Where's the good sports reportage?' There's so much going on in sport. Why not show everything?"