Todd Antony's remarkable global photographic projects

Formerly in London, now in lockdown in Auckland, photographer Todd Antony usually travels the reaches of the globe on both ambitious commercial and personal projects, and has racked up numerous international awards in the process. Antony’s most recent personal project got a ‘best of show’ at the August 2021 American Photographic Artists Awards: a series of portraits shot in May of Sierra Leone’s Flying Stars amputee football team, a group born out of that country’s 1991-2002 civil war. 

Antony’s advertising clients include Samsung, Sony, Shell, Audi and the BBC, but in his personal work in the last seven years he’s travelled to work with extraordinary and diverse subcultures and groups. They have also included the ‘Climbing Cholitas’ a group of Bolivian indigenous women who used to cook for visiting high altitude mountaineers but have now taken on the climbing themselves, and Dekotora Japanese truck decorating culture.

Dekotora: Japanese truck decorating culture.

Two of the dress-up characters of Las Vegas's Sunset Strip.

Sierra Leone's amputee Flying Stars football team.

Sierra Leone's amputee Flying Stars football team.

Bolivia’s flying wrestlers the 'cholitas luchadoras'.

Bolivia's indigenous women mountaineers the ‘Climbing Cholitas’.

A member of the veteran cheerleading team the Sun City Pom's.

Photographer Todd Antony

The images in this gallery are used with permission and are subject to copyright conditions.