I have been a print journalist for a decade and a professional photographer for 4 years. I’ve always been a great baseball fan, and my love of US sports in general led me to become a photographer. Through writing and photography, I can immortalize the most famous sporting events, shoot the best athletes, help create of sport’s history and share the emotions felt near the dugout or on the court of NBA arenas.

In 2006, I founded the 42 Sports Images photo agency specializing in US sports and covering events all around the world: NBA games throughout the USA (including the 2009 NBA Finals), European and Worldwide baseball championships (including the 2009 World Baseball Classic), MLB games, French professional leagues of baskeball, soccer (1st league and French team’s games), rugby world cup, French Internationals of Roland Garros, National and International meeting of Athletics, Internationals of Gymnastics, 2009 World Games, boxing games, long distance race (Sand’s Marathon), and more.

I regularly work with major photo agencies: Icon Sports Media in the USA, DPPI and Reportages-Press in France and Action Plus in Europe.

For two years I have been the accredited photographer for the publication Reverse and its website BasketSession for every NBA game.

In addtion to photographing sports in France and around the world, I also feature my opinions on sports on my blog (in french). I also discuss my life and work as a photographer, and the media, based on my experiences behind and beyond the eyepiece.

It’s also possible to access the archives of my work:

- The archives 42SI: My photos are displayed here in several disciplines. It also shows many of the baseball photos from elise-archives.com.

- The archive website, www.elise-archive.com, is one of the largest stock photography sites of baseball in Europe. It gathers more than 15, 000 photos of French, European and International events, covered throughout the world (USA, Puerto Rico, Cuba, France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, China, Dominican Republic, etc). This unique searchable archive is classified by dates, keywords, types of photos (actions, portraits, illustrations).

- My portfolio www.chris-elise.com features a selection of my work through several pictures and portfolios organized by themes. It shows actions, illustrations, and portraits of international athletes.