Few photographers can truly capture the drama, joy, and sheer intensity that every player experiences on the field. Michael Zagaris is one of the few, a pro photographer who has built his career on an almost psychic ability to empathize with players. His photographs reflect locker-room life and expose the emotion that’s usually hidden behind helmets. Zagaris is a behind-the-scenes sports photographer, a true biographer of the game.

Exploring the vast darkness of the Borneo rain forest is rough, dirty and dangerous work. Just ask wildlife photographer Mattias Klum. “Most people say that it would be great to be in the rain forest,” he says. “But when you explain what it means to spend 14 months in a tent in a moldy forest full of mosquitoes and leeches and termites, trying not to catch malaria, it’s sometimes easier said than done.