A few weeks before the 2021 Kentucky Derby, Jeff Faughender injured his knee playing tennis and asked for a photo assignment that wouldn’t require too much walking. So he was assigned to cover the race from the roof of the racetrack with the focus on shooting the finish.
“I was delighted to get the rooftop assignment,” said Faughender. “I was focused on shooting the finish but also the start of the race. In setting up my shots, I turned to my left. I saw shadows of the spires over the racetrack, and I thought about getting the field in one view.”
Faughender’s ensuing photograph “Between The Shadows” won the 2021 media Eclipse award for photography (see above picture).
The awards are usually held in January every year.
The 2020 Ecipse media award for photography was also of a far off shot of the Kentucky Derby, “A Derby Without Fans,” taken by Alex Evers (see below).
