Eric Seals
@ericseals.bsky.social
I’ve been a Detroit Free Press photojournalist for over 25 amazing years 📸 [email protected]. http://ericseals.com. Mizzou Made ‘93 🐯
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Eric Seals
@ericseals.bsky.social
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Eric Seals
Visual Journeys of Eric Seals. Photo & video storytelling done for the Detroit Free Press.
ericseals.com
I’ve been a Detroit photojournalist for over 25 amazing years 📸 [email protected]. ericseals.com. Mizzou Made ‘93 🐯
Talented photojournalists working in important projects. A $6,000 grant can really help out.
Applications are open for NPPF’s 2025 Alan Hagman Grant.
✅ Apply Online: site.pinter.com/2025-nppf-alan…
📧 Contact: Michelle McLoughlin
[email protected]
Applications are open for NPPF’s 2025 Alan Hagman Grant.
✅ Apply Online: site.pinter.com/2025-nppf-alan…
📧 Contact: Michelle McLoughlin
[email protected]
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Talented photojournalists working in important projects. A $6,000 grant can really help out.
Applications are open for NPPF’s 2025 Alan Hagman Grant.
✅ Apply Online: site.pinter.com/2025-nppf-alan…
📧 Contact: Michelle McLoughlin
[email protected]
Applications are open for NPPF’s 2025 Alan Hagman Grant.
✅ Apply Online: site.pinter.com/2025-nppf-alan…
📧 Contact: Michelle McLoughlin
[email protected]
Ok, I’ll play this trend…“To all professionals in journalism, film, TV, theatre; Post a pic of yourself on the job. Just a pic, no description. Goal is to flood BlueSky w/our profession. Copy the text & tweet a pic on your page.”
📸 by my fixer w/ @HyoungChang of Denver Post.
📸 by my fixer w/ @HyoungChang of Denver Post.
July 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ok, I’ll play this trend…“To all professionals in journalism, film, TV, theatre; Post a pic of yourself on the job. Just a pic, no description. Goal is to flood BlueSky w/our profession. Copy the text & tweet a pic on your page.”
📸 by my fixer w/ @HyoungChang of Denver Post.
📸 by my fixer w/ @HyoungChang of Denver Post.
A nice @freep.com front page weather feature in today’s Detroit Free Press by apprentice Ari Saperstein
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#photojournalism #journalism #newspapers
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#photojournalism #journalism #newspapers
July 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A nice @freep.com front page weather feature in today’s Detroit Free Press by apprentice Ari Saperstein
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#photojournalism #journalism #newspapers
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#photojournalism #journalism #newspapers
“What Up Doe!”
Chaz Lanier, a guard who the @detroitpistons.bsky.social selected in 2nd round of ‘25 NBA draft from Tennesee shoots a video for Pistons socials & ended his video saying “What Up Doe” with a smile.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#chazlanier #detroitpistons
Chaz Lanier, a guard who the @detroitpistons.bsky.social selected in 2nd round of ‘25 NBA draft from Tennesee shoots a video for Pistons socials & ended his video saying “What Up Doe” with a smile.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#chazlanier #detroitpistons
July 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“What Up Doe!”
Chaz Lanier, a guard who the @detroitpistons.bsky.social selected in 2nd round of ‘25 NBA draft from Tennesee shoots a video for Pistons socials & ended his video saying “What Up Doe” with a smile.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#chazlanier #detroitpistons
Chaz Lanier, a guard who the @detroitpistons.bsky.social selected in 2nd round of ‘25 NBA draft from Tennesee shoots a video for Pistons socials & ended his video saying “What Up Doe” with a smile.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#chazlanier #detroitpistons
Love the way the JJ the bat dog picture story turned out in print in the Sunday @freep.com
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social
www.freep.com/story/sports...
#uspbl #jjthebatdog #photojournalism #newspapers #journalism
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social
www.freep.com/story/sports...
#uspbl #jjthebatdog #photojournalism #newspapers #journalism
July 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Love the way the JJ the bat dog picture story turned out in print in the Sunday @freep.com
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social
www.freep.com/story/sports...
#uspbl #jjthebatdog #photojournalism #newspapers #journalism
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social
www.freep.com/story/sports...
#uspbl #jjthebatdog #photojournalism #newspapers #journalism
One of the many protesters that came to the Indivisible We The People Dissent rally and protest at Hart Plaza In Detroit on Saturday, July 5, 2025.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#handmaidstale #protest
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#handmaidstale #protest
July 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One of the many protesters that came to the Indivisible We The People Dissent rally and protest at Hart Plaza In Detroit on Saturday, July 5, 2025.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#handmaidstale #protest
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#handmaidstale #protest
Joey and I hope you all have a “Happy Stuff Your Mouth with Hot Dogs Day.”
July 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Joey and I hope you all have a “Happy Stuff Your Mouth with Hot Dogs Day.”
I had a ton of fun w/ JJ the Field General at USPBL for @freep.com story I shot & wrote.
Also enjoyed working w/Anntaninna Biondo, one of our pic editors on the color page. I love moving the good puzzle pieces around on a page to see what fits best for the layout 👍🏽😀
#photojournalism #newspapers
Also enjoyed working w/Anntaninna Biondo, one of our pic editors on the color page. I love moving the good puzzle pieces around on a page to see what fits best for the layout 👍🏽😀
#photojournalism #newspapers
July 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I had a ton of fun w/ JJ the Field General at USPBL for @freep.com story I shot & wrote.
Also enjoyed working w/Anntaninna Biondo, one of our pic editors on the color page. I love moving the good puzzle pieces around on a page to see what fits best for the layout 👍🏽😀
#photojournalism #newspapers
Also enjoyed working w/Anntaninna Biondo, one of our pic editors on the color page. I love moving the good puzzle pieces around on a page to see what fits best for the layout 👍🏽😀
#photojournalism #newspapers
Had fun on this 📸 story
tinyurl.com/JJthebatdog
He’s been the USPBL bat dog since ‘18. With a handler, JJ does everything from taking out the 1st pitch to grabbing bats & delivering flowers to a sweetheart of the game.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#jjthebatdog
tinyurl.com/JJthebatdog
He’s been the USPBL bat dog since ‘18. With a handler, JJ does everything from taking out the 1st pitch to grabbing bats & delivering flowers to a sweetheart of the game.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#jjthebatdog
July 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Had fun on this 📸 story
tinyurl.com/JJthebatdog
He’s been the USPBL bat dog since ‘18. With a handler, JJ does everything from taking out the 1st pitch to grabbing bats & delivering flowers to a sweetheart of the game.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#jjthebatdog
tinyurl.com/JJthebatdog
He’s been the USPBL bat dog since ‘18. With a handler, JJ does everything from taking out the 1st pitch to grabbing bats & delivering flowers to a sweetheart of the game.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#jjthebatdog
Just saw F1 the movie in IMAX.
Fantastic 👍🏽👍🏽
Worth seeing especially in IMAX if you like an underdog storyline, good sounds, acting & intense racing. The cameras put you in 🏁🏎️💨 like was done for Top Gun: Maverick, same director.
I see why it’s made over $160 million over the weekend.
Fantastic 👍🏽👍🏽
Worth seeing especially in IMAX if you like an underdog storyline, good sounds, acting & intense racing. The cameras put you in 🏁🏎️💨 like was done for Top Gun: Maverick, same director.
I see why it’s made over $160 million over the weekend.
June 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just saw F1 the movie in IMAX.
Fantastic 👍🏽👍🏽
Worth seeing especially in IMAX if you like an underdog storyline, good sounds, acting & intense racing. The cameras put you in 🏁🏎️💨 like was done for Top Gun: Maverick, same director.
I see why it’s made over $160 million over the weekend.
Fantastic 👍🏽👍🏽
Worth seeing especially in IMAX if you like an underdog storyline, good sounds, acting & intense racing. The cameras put you in 🏁🏎️💨 like was done for Top Gun: Maverick, same director.
I see why it’s made over $160 million over the weekend.
A beautiful rainbow after a bad rainstorm at Jimmy John’s Field in Utica before the Utica Unicorns played the Westside Woolley Mammoths on Friday evening.
📸 by @ericseals of @freep.com
📸 by @ericseals of @freep.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A beautiful rainbow after a bad rainstorm at Jimmy John’s Field in Utica before the Utica Unicorns played the Westside Woolley Mammoths on Friday evening.
📸 by @ericseals of @freep.com
📸 by @ericseals of @freep.com
That weird feeling you get deep in your soul when you’re on an elevator with some kind of Pokémon and a Koala Bear at a minor league baseball game.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
That weird feeling you get deep in your soul when you’re on an elevator with some kind of Pokémon and a Koala Bear at a minor league baseball game.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
Wild that it’s been 10 yrs since Jim Schaefer & I did a trip & adventure of a lifetime for 7 days.
We were on the Paul R. Tregurtha, a 1,013 footer, the longest freighter on the Great Lakes for a series of stories as we traveled from one end 🧵
We were on the Paul R. Tregurtha, a 1,013 footer, the longest freighter on the Great Lakes for a series of stories as we traveled from one end 🧵
June 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wild that it’s been 10 yrs since Jim Schaefer & I did a trip & adventure of a lifetime for 7 days.
We were on the Paul R. Tregurtha, a 1,013 footer, the longest freighter on the Great Lakes for a series of stories as we traveled from one end 🧵
We were on the Paul R. Tregurtha, a 1,013 footer, the longest freighter on the Great Lakes for a series of stories as we traveled from one end 🧵
Bryan Dulsky, owner of Detroit Steeplejack, works at painting the spire at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plymouth on June 12, 2025.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #steeplejack
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #steeplejack
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
June 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Bryan Dulsky, owner of Detroit Steeplejack, works at painting the spire at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plymouth on June 12, 2025.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #steeplejack
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com #steeplejack
www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Happy National Take Your Dog to Work Day.
🐶
Wish I could take Baxter or our other dog Bella on assignments with me, people would enjoy either of them.
www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...
🐶
Wish I could take Baxter or our other dog Bella on assignments with me, people would enjoy either of them.
www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...
June 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy National Take Your Dog to Work Day.
🐶
Wish I could take Baxter or our other dog Bella on assignments with me, people would enjoy either of them.
www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...
🐶
Wish I could take Baxter or our other dog Bella on assignments with me, people would enjoy either of them.
www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...
Ok Facebook, weird but funny at the same time 😆
Opened the app on my iPhone & see this ad for Meta AI w/ a pic of me by Dan Powers when covering track & field at the ‘16 Olympics in Rio.
I can’t tell if that’s from a Renaissance festival or I’m a matador ready to fight a bull.
Opened the app on my iPhone & see this ad for Meta AI w/ a pic of me by Dan Powers when covering track & field at the ‘16 Olympics in Rio.
I can’t tell if that’s from a Renaissance festival or I’m a matador ready to fight a bull.
June 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ok Facebook, weird but funny at the same time 😆
Opened the app on my iPhone & see this ad for Meta AI w/ a pic of me by Dan Powers when covering track & field at the ‘16 Olympics in Rio.
I can’t tell if that’s from a Renaissance festival or I’m a matador ready to fight a bull.
Opened the app on my iPhone & see this ad for Meta AI w/ a pic of me by Dan Powers when covering track & field at the ‘16 Olympics in Rio.
I can’t tell if that’s from a Renaissance festival or I’m a matador ready to fight a bull.
A great way to start #FathersDay
My kids did a nice breakfast in bed, nice cards, a new book on F1 great @lewishamiltonbr.bsky.social
🏁🏎️ & a new pair of AirPods.
Going bowling later then playing board games, watching Canadian Grand Prix, a Lewis win please?🙏🏾, then dinner & a movie 😀
My kids did a nice breakfast in bed, nice cards, a new book on F1 great @lewishamiltonbr.bsky.social
🏁🏎️ & a new pair of AirPods.
Going bowling later then playing board games, watching Canadian Grand Prix, a Lewis win please?🙏🏾, then dinner & a movie 😀
June 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A great way to start #FathersDay
My kids did a nice breakfast in bed, nice cards, a new book on F1 great @lewishamiltonbr.bsky.social
🏁🏎️ & a new pair of AirPods.
Going bowling later then playing board games, watching Canadian Grand Prix, a Lewis win please?🙏🏾, then dinner & a movie 😀
My kids did a nice breakfast in bed, nice cards, a new book on F1 great @lewishamiltonbr.bsky.social
🏁🏎️ & a new pair of AirPods.
Going bowling later then playing board games, watching Canadian Grand Prix, a Lewis win please?🙏🏾, then dinner & a movie 😀
Over 3,000 people came to Clark Park in #Detroit to rally & then marched down Michigan Ave towards the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building where ICE is located during the national No Kings protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#NoKingsProtest
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#NoKingsProtest
June 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Over 3,000 people came to Clark Park in #Detroit to rally & then marched down Michigan Ave towards the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building where ICE is located during the national No Kings protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#NoKingsProtest
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#NoKingsProtest
Fun day working w/ our Freep 📸 intern Finn Gomez at the No Kings protest in Detroit today.
Made sure this was his for good experience & I mainly flew my drone, did a little shooting. Loved his hustle, enthusiasm & energy! 👍🏽😀
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#photojournalism
Made sure this was his for good experience & I mainly flew my drone, did a little shooting. Loved his hustle, enthusiasm & energy! 👍🏽😀
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#photojournalism
June 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Fun day working w/ our Freep 📸 intern Finn Gomez at the No Kings protest in Detroit today.
Made sure this was his for good experience & I mainly flew my drone, did a little shooting. Loved his hustle, enthusiasm & energy! 👍🏽😀
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#photojournalism
Made sure this was his for good experience & I mainly flew my drone, did a little shooting. Loved his hustle, enthusiasm & energy! 👍🏽😀
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#photojournalism
I'm obsessed w/ Nikon F3HP since I saw 1 last week. Made me want to buy 1 on eBay.
Found old pic of ‘89 me at @themaneater.bsky.social (Mizzou student newspaper) w/ my F3 & 85/1.4 lens.
Still the most tack sharp lens I've ever owned. #nikon #nikonf3 #nikonf3hp #journalism #mizzou
Found old pic of ‘89 me at @themaneater.bsky.social (Mizzou student newspaper) w/ my F3 & 85/1.4 lens.
Still the most tack sharp lens I've ever owned. #nikon #nikonf3 #nikonf3hp #journalism #mizzou
June 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I'm obsessed w/ Nikon F3HP since I saw 1 last week. Made me want to buy 1 on eBay.
Found old pic of ‘89 me at @themaneater.bsky.social (Mizzou student newspaper) w/ my F3 & 85/1.4 lens.
Still the most tack sharp lens I've ever owned. #nikon #nikonf3 #nikonf3hp #journalism #mizzou
Found old pic of ‘89 me at @themaneater.bsky.social (Mizzou student newspaper) w/ my F3 & 85/1.4 lens.
Still the most tack sharp lens I've ever owned. #nikon #nikonf3 #nikonf3hp #journalism #mizzou
A fun time at Michigan State covering ‘25 MHSAA Division 1 Boys Golf Finals at Forest Akers in East Lansing on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
Ian Masih from Okemos won the individual championship w/ Detroit CC winning the team championship.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
Ian Masih from Okemos won the individual championship w/ Detroit CC winning the team championship.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A fun time at Michigan State covering ‘25 MHSAA Division 1 Boys Golf Finals at Forest Akers in East Lansing on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
Ian Masih from Okemos won the individual championship w/ Detroit CC winning the team championship.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
Ian Masih from Okemos won the individual championship w/ Detroit CC winning the team championship.
📸 by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
For a split second while scrolling on Twitter, I saw this tweet & did a double take. Seeing @canonusa.bsky.social name & w/ them having all black cameras & lenses aside from the 70-200 & the way the woman is looking as if she’s shooting, I wondered what new camera they came out with 😂
June 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
For a split second while scrolling on Twitter, I saw this tweet & did a double take. Seeing @canonusa.bsky.social name & w/ them having all black cameras & lenses aside from the 70-200 & the way the woman is looking as if she’s shooting, I wondered what new camera they came out with 😂
Had a ton of fun on #BelleIsle & at the Detroit Yacht Club 📸’ing many classic @Chrysler cars during their historical vehicle ride & drive event for the media on 6/4/25
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#cars #automoblies #chrysler
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#cars #automoblies #chrysler
June 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Had a ton of fun on #BelleIsle & at the Detroit Yacht Club 📸’ing many classic @Chrysler cars during their historical vehicle ride & drive event for the media on 6/4/25
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#cars #automoblies #chrysler
📸’s by @ericseals.bsky.social of @freep.com
#cars #automoblies #chrysler
Saw this beautiful #Nikon F3 HP w/ an 85mm lens while on assignment today & had drool coming out of my mouth 😂
It was the 1st camera I saved up for cutting lawns in the summer of ‘88. I need to go on eBay & buy one for memory sake, they can be bought for $340 & up.
It was the 1st camera I saved up for cutting lawns in the summer of ‘88. I need to go on eBay & buy one for memory sake, they can be bought for $340 & up.
June 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Saw this beautiful #Nikon F3 HP w/ an 85mm lens while on assignment today & had drool coming out of my mouth 😂
It was the 1st camera I saved up for cutting lawns in the summer of ‘88. I need to go on eBay & buy one for memory sake, they can be bought for $340 & up.
It was the 1st camera I saved up for cutting lawns in the summer of ‘88. I need to go on eBay & buy one for memory sake, they can be bought for $340 & up.