I’m Antonio Vargas. I shoot the game the way it actually happens.
A Chicagoland sports photographer and soccer specialist. Nearly twenty years with a camera — but the last four, shooting the game seriously, are the ones that changed everything.
It started on my daughters’ sideline.
I have two daughters, 14 and 12, and they both play high-level elite club soccer. Most weekends you’ll find me at the end of a pitch somewhere in Chicagoland. I started bringing my camera to their matches, and I fell for the photographs almost immediately — players in their natural game state, nothing posed, the match telling its own story frame by frame.
I’ve been the (unofficial) team photographer for their teams ever since. That’s where my eye got sharp: real games, real speed, real stakes — week after week.
What I chase in a frame.
How I work
I shoot a Nikon Z6III and work the whole pitch, but you’ll usually find me at the ends, where the game gets decided. The goal is always the same: frames a family wants on the wall, and images a club is proud to put its name behind.