Rugby / Daniel D'Ottavio
In 2008, the New York Athletic Club Rugby Team won the coveted Rugby Super League Championship.
During this historic season, Daniel D'Ottavio followed the team's home games at Travers Island, photographing the action on the field and on the sidelines with only a handheld medium format camera.
The result is no ordinary sports photography. If you seek out rugby photography, you will find many images that depict the game as we - the spectators, the outsiders - see it. Instead, Daniel's images show us the game as the players see and experience it.
The limited edition book presents 34 tritone images printed on uncoated paper, and bound in a printed cloth drop-spine hardcover with screen printed spine detail.
LIMITED EDITION
500 signed and numbered copies
64 pages with 34 tritone plates
hardcover, 9 x 11 inches
ISBN 978-1-936063-02-4
Daniel D'Ottavio is a commercial photographer based in New York City. He first fell in love with film when he was given his grandfather's Pentax camera, and has since turned his passion into a successful career in fashion, sports and portrait photography.
Whether documenting real events or creating a fictional world with his photographs, Daniel strives to produce images that are an authentic reflection of the people in them. He favors traditional film and Polaroid photography, typically using natural light and a handheld camera to achieve a look that feels at once both contemporary and of a different time.
Silas Finch is proud to support the Play Rugby USA® program.
Founded by Mark Griffin in 2003, Play Rugby, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 approved non-profit organization that runs youth rugby programs in multiple elementary and middle schools.
Play Rugby USA® is the unique youth development program that has won national recognition for pioneering its philosophy of "developing youth through rugby". The program was set up to bring the benefits of rugby education to boys and girls of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
