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Program Description: Julio Cortez, Texas/Oklahoma Chief Photographer for The Associated Press, has coveredfive Olympics, two World Cups and five Super Bowls.
Learn how you can take Julio’s process of planning and executing competitive images from the world’s biggest stages to your everyday sporting events. Learn how strategically placing a remote camera can elevate your photography and take your viewers’ eyes to places that are normally not visible.
Bio: Julio Cortez is a Pulitzer Prize winning staff photographer for The Associated Press. He is currently the Chief Photographer for the AP’s Texas/Oklahoma region. A graduate of Cal State University, Northridge, and a native of Mexico City, Julio earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 with a photograph that anchored a ten-photographer team providing images from the riots across the United States following the death of George Floyd. He has
contributed with national and international coverage of news and sporting events.
On the sports side, Cortez has contributed to coverage of four Olympic Games while covering marquee sports such as gymnastics and ice hockey. He has covered four Super
Bowls, and was assigned to follow Team Spain during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and Team USA during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Cortez versatility is displayed with his coverage of NFL games, when he’s asked to shoot or edit games. Amongst Cortez’ more memorable NFL football images is the Odell Beckham one-handed catch, which has generated its reprinting on billboards, ad campaigns and TV sports shows.
Cortez is well versed in setting up remotes. He was responsible of 20 remotes during American Pharoah’s horse race victory at the Belmont Stakes, the first triple crown victory in almost four decades.
Cortez began his career as a reporting stringer for the LA Times and LA Daily News out of high school. He covered mostly high school and college sports for the Daily News while working his way through college. Also, during college, Julio participated in photography internships ranging from Spanish publications in Dallas and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, a mid-size paper in West Texas and The Associated Press in Chicago.
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