The Tour de France 2024 in pictures

'It started in Italy: Romain Bardet and Frank van den Broek took the first stage, that was super cool.'

'We're at the finish, and we're watching the TV, and we all start chatting, the photographers, like, "oh, you reckon they can do it? Like, no way." Then it turns into "wow, like, maybe? It's going to be tight." 

'And then they pulled it off. And we're all shooting, and we're all yelling at the same time, like, "what the heck this is crazy!"

'Then Romain Bardet pulls on the yellow jersey, in what was his last Tour de France. As a photographer, that stuff's always super special to shoot.'

'The next day, still in Italy, I took this super cool photo with these hay bales and Jonas Abrahamsen in the polka dot jersey, which I really like. It's very summer Tour de France vibes.’

'And you know, that rider really animated the break for the first half of the Tour, and kind of made that Jersey his for a while there. So that was a really cool photo to get.'

'There was Biniam’s win on stage three, and Richie going into the yellow jersey. That was a pretty stressful day work-wise, actually, it was really tight to get around, but we managed it.’

'Biniam winning his first Tour stage - his first of three - that was history, you know. Again, it's just super cool to be there for those special moments and photographing records like that - a black African rider's first win. Richie going into yellow too was super cool.'

'Then, there's the Galibier stage, and I have this cool photo of Cavendish, one of the last riders on the mountain, descending with this epic view.’

‘You know, he was struggling the first few days, and then the next day, he takes that win and again, it's history. This Tour was filled with moments like that, these super cool stories. Now my photos are a part of that, they help tell those stories, and that's super special.'

'We have the gravel stage at the end of the first week, which was super cool. I'm a big fan of gravel and cobbles in Grand Tours. You know, a lot of the riders aren’t and some fans aren't. But honestly, at the end of the day, sport is entertainment, and I think that's some of the best racing you get.’ 

'The GC boys were really attacking each other, and you had this breakaway that potentially was going to stay away, potentially going to get caught. Then Anthony Turgis took the win, for the French wildcard team that normally is just in doomed breakaways getting caught. It was really cool to see him get the win.'

'Second week we had stage 11, where Jonas took the win against Pogačar. He got dropped, then he came back and won, and we shot on, I think it's Puy Mary. I shot just over the descent, and Pogacar came first, and Jonas came second, and there's like, 30 seconds between them, but he closed it and won, and it's super cool.’

'I have this sweet photo of Jonas descending, just looking locked in and focused, and there's this hill behind him, and it was a super sweet spot actually, I liked that a lot.'

'There was the Rocamadour Stage, where it went through that town, which was used as a time trial on stage 20 in 2022, and this time the peloton went past. It's this, old town that's built into the hillside, and that's super cool. It's always really nice to photograph. I liked that a lot.'

'There's the Tourmalet stage. We shot on the Tourmalet, and we missed the finish, but it's the Tourmalet, so of course, you shoot there. Again we went for the descent, and it's just these huge mountains with the riders, super nice.’

'You know, I could shoot like 25 different angles there, and all of them would have been super nice. So you're always kind of second-guessing what to shoot.’

'The race goes over the Tourmalet again this year, and I'm actually quite excited to go back and find a different spot, do something different.'

'Into the third week, Richie won stage 17. And man, he was so strong that day, he was flying.’

'I got this really cool photo looking down on the road as Pogačar attacked, and then you have Jonas and Remco chasing, and it's your Tour de France podium there with the three jerseys. So that was a really special photo to take, and it got a lot of traction online, which was super cool.’

'It was a beautiful stage, and I feel like I really messed up the big, beautiful shot of the mountains on that day that I wanted. But I still came away with that shot of the three of them.'

'Victor Campenaerts won stage 18. It was a cool breakaway day. It's always cool to see him win, because, you know, he's not one of those big riders that that wins all the time, but he's still a phenomenal athlete. It really meant a lot to him and he was super emotional after the finish, which was so nice.’

'Actually, my cards corrupted that day, and I lost a tonne of photos, which sucked, but I managed to get them back - it was super stressful.'

'The next stage was Cime de la Bonette, this super iconic climb. I think it'd been like a long time since it'd been used. It was the highest point of the race - the Souvenir Henri Desgrange.’

'It was a GC stage. Pogačar took another minute, so the race was super predictable by that point. But yeah, it was this big barren landscape, and it was actually really hard for us to move around there, because it's within a national park, so there were only certain spots we could stand in to shoot, so it was kind of difficult.’

'It was one of those days where we can pick one place only. So we were just hanging out, for like, a few hours, waiting for the race to come, and then shot it, and then went to our accommodation. So it was a very chill day.’ 

'It was super cold up there. Every photographer was there, so it was kind of fun all hanging out.'

'The next day, Pogačar won, after saying in the media he'd let the break win, and then he won, and everyone was kicking off about that, but also QuickStep rode. So that's how it happened.’

'And again, that was a stage where we could do the start and finish only. So I shot the finish instead of the last climb. And that's a photo of Pogačar posting up with his hand for the five stage wins he had.'

'Then the last day was a time trial, which was horrible. Basically, time trials on stage 21 should be illegal. It was a six-hour day, and it was in Nice and it was so locked down, there was a terror threat there the day before, and they had to clear a bomb so everyone was really on edge.’

'We just shot in the crowd basically, we had to be near the finish for the final podium. There was this crazy scene of all the Eritrean fans there for Bini. There's this shot of him time-trialling past all these fans, and it's crazy. They were like, climbing the street lamps, standing on anything, flags and flares. It was wild.'