Insights: Getting To Sleep For Athletes

Derek Morrison is an award-winning photojournalist who has worked with many high-performance athletes throughout his career. He has worked extensively documenting and photographing the careers of athletes in snowsports, surfing, rugby, football, motocross, enduro, desert racing, mountain biking, cycling and most other team sports. Derek competed seriously in motocross and supercross in his early days before the call of the mountains grasped him where competed in some of the earliest snowboarding competitions. It was in that environment that photography and journalism soon took over. Derek is passionate about the pinnacle of sport – the athletes who time after time return to the very top step of the podium. It's a fascination that has led him to some incredible corners of the high-performance sport world and he feels very fortunate for that.