“I shoot a professional basketball team, Sluc Nancy, in my hometown. I also work for the basketball federation and that league for the All-Star game in Bercy, Paris. It’s a lot of matches during the season.”
The difference in pace between basketball and tennis offers up different angles, literally, for capturing the action.
“Basketball is a team sport, it’s more complicated, action pictures are very challenging as you have five guys in each team on the court. I love it, I grew up with it. When I was younger I wanted to be a professional basketball player,” Wacziak explains.
“Tennis you can focus on the single player, you can find the details, whether it’s the racquet, their expressions, the movement, it’s different for sure. Tennis you can be a bit more artistic.”
When he’s working at Roland-Garros, Loic attends a meeting each morning for the photographers, who are assigned a court or two each. Loic then gets snapping and returns to the FFT offices below Court Philippe-Chatrier to transfer his photos onto the online system.
“We work with the editor, Nicolas, he takes a card with all the pictures and he edits our best ones.