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Every month, Amuse profiles a photographer whose work we admire, asking them to talk through their five all-time favourite shots from their career, and the challenges they faced in creating them.

This is The Way I See It.

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This month we spoke to Lorenz Holder, an award-winning, German-born photographer who specialises in action sports. Instead of focussing on close-up intensity, like a lot of photographers in the field, Lorenz likes to look at the bigger picture.

Opening his frame wider, he captures whole worlds, serene and dreamlike spaces in which the rider is just one small player.

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“All of this is real – the golden rule of action sports photography is that you cannot fake a trick”

Action sports are all about turning every variable up to eleven – going faster, sending it bigger off jumps, or trying more complex combos.

Lorenz’s signature style – glossy, ultra HD images captured at the peak of a rider’s trick