Artist’s Bio
A London native, Marley attended the Chelsea School of Art to obtain a degree in Design. He began photographing his friends skateboarding, and eventually began selling photos to magazines covering that sport. Now located in southeast London, Dominic Marley claims Nadav Kander and David LaChapelle as his favorite photographers. His own work is centered on sports and athlete portraits. “I’m very into movement, and how you light movement,” he says.

Currently working as a digital assistant at Pro Centre, Marley assists professional photographers with their digital workflow on-set, running images from capture media through to final output. For his own shooting, he moves between Nikon, Canon and Hasselblad. He mostly shoots digitally, but always takes one roll of film with a Hasselblad on each shoot. For his winning submission, Marley used a whopping nine Profoto Pro-8a Air packs. This shot was influenced by studying Eadweard Muybridge’s famous studies Animals in Motion, which began in 1878.

Why I needed the Pro-8Air and two Profoto D1 500w Airs for this shot:
To have a high-powered flash which can shoot that many exposures in sequence without losing power or changing the color is very groundbreaking. The recycle rate is brilliant. It’s a no-brainer. Getting the reflection of the flashes to not show on the floor involved some experiment and movement. I took seven or eight shots a second during the entire shoot and the Profoto gear didn’t miss once. If you lose one frame in an entire sequence like this, the whole thing doesn’t work. The one thing about Profoto is it doesn’t miss a flash, which is amazing.