TIMES SPORT UNSEEN
Times Sport Unseen: The best guest collections of 2023
As a new year gets under way, our photographers look back at their favourite images from guest contributors to the Unseen gallery over the past 12 months
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The Times
I am particularly pleased that we have featured both Albert Cooper and Neville Chadwick’s archive images alongside those of Clive Mason, Eddie Keogh and Andrew Reddington in 2023 as they show the way photography has evolved — from being able to photograph George Best playing cricket in a street in 1968 to Jude Bellingham striking a pose underwater in 2022. In many ways, these photos are one and the same, as it is the close relationship a photographer builds over many years with a superstar that allows such timeless photographs to be captured.
ALBERT COOPER
Marc Aspland writes: In 1968, George Best was named the European Footballer of the Year — the award now widely known as the Ballon d’Or. First, can you possibly imagine Lionel Messi
