I photograph the half-second most people miss.

I'm Noah da Costa, a photographer based in Pretoria. It started on the sidelines — watching the photographers working the touchline at matches, catching the moments the rest of the crowd blinked past. That pulled me in. I bought my first camera in December 2024 and I've been chasing those moments ever since.

Most weekends you'll find me shooting sport, but wildlife is the other half of it — there's something about being out in nature, waiting for an animal to do the one thing worth keeping. Across both, I work the same way: composition first, and as much right in-camera as I can, so the photo holds up without leaning on heavy editing.

I'd rather not hand you a generic frame. I look for the angle nobody else is shooting — the perspective that makes a familiar moment feel new. I cover sport and selected cultural events for Pretoria Boys High School most weekends, and one of my photographs was recently featured by SuperSport Schools.