At the Super Bowl | AP News

AP photojournalist Ashley Landis was on the field capturing the biggest night in sports — the Super Bowl. Here’s what she said:

I was one of six AP photographers positioned on the field in New Orleans at the 2025 Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

My role was to capture action and celebration during the game and to be ready when the players dove toward my lens in the endzone. That meant carrying three camera bodies with various lenses, extra batteries, water and multiple transmission devices used to ensure I could immediately send images directly to our team of editors.

During the game, I balanced covering fast-moving action with toggling between cameras to transmit images through a hardwired ethernet cable provided by the stadium, a Sony transmitter with a mobile SIM card and a mobile hotspot. I prioritized which images to send first and tagged them in the camera before transmitting them to an editor. Of the tens of thousands of images captured that day, each photographer first chose a few hundred of their own to send on the spot.

The feeling of a 300-pound athlete careening toward me while making a catch during the biggest game of the year is only matched by the adrenaline high of making sure that that photo is sent out to the world within seconds after it was captured. Our AP photo team ensures exactly that.

Along with the field photographers, we had three photographers in seats around the stadium, as well as two photographers who controlled several remote and robotic cameras mounted in the rafters. This gave us at least 10 different views of every play on the field. Behind the scenes, we had a room full of editors who meticulously combed through every frame to decide which images best told the story of the game.

By the time the Vince Lombardi Trophy appeared, AP had provided hundreds of photos that were published all over the world.