Ken Griffey Jr.'s Masters assignment is much bigger than photography
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By: James Colgan Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram April 12, 2025 AUGUSTA, Ga. — Ken Griffey Jr. steadied himself as he stood just above the 2nd green at Augusta National. He’d arrived in this location — fifteen paces to the left of the flag — just seconds earlier, carrying a pair of enormous blunt instruments and the indomitable focus of a bomb technician. Beneath him, Justin Thomas tiptoed into a stark-white greenside bunker and disappeared below the lip.Then, suddenly, a flurry of action broke out before him, and Griffey plunged forward — holding his breath, training his eye, and then, finally, pulling the trigger.If you’d like to understand what compelled the owner of 630 home runs into sports photography, you needed only these 15 seconds on Masters Saturday. The action at the intersection of anticipation and focus? The game-within-the-game between man and subject? The opportunity to make art from violence? As it turns out, Ken Griffey Jr. is still good at those things. The ven...