Chat with Josh Hedges

 You may not know who Josh Hedges is, but you know his work very well. UFC’s official photographer since the 24th edition, he’s the only man that can photograph from up the fence and, in the next day, distribute his best photos for all the medias around the world. It was more than 150 events, who certainly were in hundreds of magazine covers around the world. Susumu Nagao fan, considered by most as the biggest MMA photographer, Josh Hedges spoke with TATAME in an exclusive interview, where he told his history, how did he went to the UFC, the best and worst moments in the career, his favorites photos and revealed he wants to watch a rematch between Wanderlei Silva and Vitor Belfort. Check below the chat.

When and how you started working as photographer?

 

I have always had an interest in photography since I was a child.  Always taking pictures of everything we did – family trips, baseball games, tennis matches, and such.  When I started following MMA, I was in my first year of college.  One of our projects for a class was to build a website.  I chose to focus mine on MMA.  After the class was over, I improved the site and released it to the public.  It later became ufighting.com, which was at one point one of the more popular MMA websites.  As ufighting.com became more popular, I started looking for ways to improve the coverage.  So, I began photographing MMA events, including small shows in Texas and even a few UFC’s that I was able to attend.