The Crowd Went Wild: A Photographic Collection

Four decades. Five continents. A journey in cameras.The Crowd Went Wild is a photographic collection — nearly 40 years of live sports and music captured from the stands by an amateur who always had a ticket and always had a camera.The collection begins on film — a Bolex on top of a high school press box, a Yashica 35mm picked up in Singapore, even a Mamiya medium-format camera carried into the Final Four. The digital revolution arrives with a Nikon D100, and the bodies evolve from there — D300, D850 — before a chance encounter at a baseball stadium leads to the Sony mirrorless system. Some of the later photographs circle back to older digital bodies, because sometimes the right camera for the moment is the one you already know.The journey moves in chronological order, from the College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium in 1988 to MotoGP at the Circuit of the Americas in 2026. Along the way: a relay that became swimming's greatest comeback, a scoring record captured from the second row, a racquet hurled into the Olympic crowd, the first Major League Baseball game ever played in China, European football derbies at San Siro and Wembley, and a Chinese player and a Taiwanese player side by side on a tennis court — because sometimes the quieter moments say more than the loud ones. The collection goes well beyond the marquee events. Inside you'll find professional 9-ball pool, early skateboarding, disc golf, gravel racing, Fed Cup tennis, NASCAR, Formula 1, and live concerts — because the crowd goes wild for that too.Most images are uncropped and minimally processed — what you see is what the camera saw. The compact hardcover format makes it a personal, page-by-page journey rather than a coffee table showpiece.This third edition is the definitive version of the collection. Previous editions converted all photographs to black and white due to printing limitations. For the first time, the images are presented in full color — the way they were always meant to be seen. The collection represents four decades of great glass, good timing, and a willingness to be in the right place at the right time. Read more