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Luis Toca Camejo shown in its files a substantial part of the history of Cuban sports movement.

As a sports photographer, Luis Toca Camejo has created masterpieces that have made him go beyond his time.

He traded his dream of becoming a world professional boxing champion for a passion for sports photography. He has excelled in that field with so much stamina and endurance that Mr. Camejo’s archives embrace a considerable chunk of Cuba’s sport history.

Maybe he would have made headlines as a professional pug, prompting sports writers of his time to come up with long articles about his attitude both on and off the ring. But his last bout as a professional prizefighter came on December 30, 1961. Shortly after that, the Cuban Government weeded out professionalism from sport practice on the island. This well-known camera artist had studied to be a clinical lab clerk, and that’s the job he landed after quitting his professional career as a boxer. An unexpected dizzying occurrence, however, made him turn to film development. His teachers, Jesus Rocamora, Rogelio More, Jose Agraz and Osvaldo Salas, made some history of their own and rubbed their rich expertise and experience off on the advanced student. Now Mr. Camejo is passing all that knowledge on to his own pupils.

A founder of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation on February 1962, Mr. Camejo is now working for Bohemia magazine, Cuba’s long-in-the-tooth weekly publication, where he has covered Central American Games, Pan American competitions, Olympiads, world tournaments and other sports events. His résumé also retells risky stints as a war correspondent in Angola and the Democratic Saharan Republic, with hundreds of snapshots under his belt. Alongside the jarring memories he keeps in the back of his mind, Mr. Camejo also treasures some of the pictures that have struck him the most during his entire career of 40-plus years, especially those in which he has captured the gruel horrors of war.

Still trapped in lenses, chemicals and photographic paper, the current chief of the magazine’s Photography Department has witnessed many of Cuba’s glorious sport moments. Whether it’s been the grand finale of a world baseball cup or the gold-medal flights of a boxing tournament, Mr. Camejo has always been there, ready to press the shutter.

This array of mementos makes him a central figure whenever Cuba embarks on a recount of its most cherished glories, from the very beginning to date. He’s had exclusive coverage access to such Cuban sport legends as three time world and Olympic boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson, and baseball pitcher Rogelio Garcia, one of Cuba’s finest hurlers ever.

With a passionate flair for boxing, Mr. Camejo also enjoys watching other sports events and competitions in which he’s equally taken incredibly amazing snapshots, chiefly in sepia and in black and white.

“The real photographer works in black and white,” he says. “That’s how light, movement, hues, shades and other elements should be combined with technical expertise. Colors simply do the job for you. It’s always easier.” Mr. Camejo gives our readers a peek at his latest exhibit: Baseball Classics, a collection that has quickly caught on in the public from the turf and overseas, and in which he puts the mastery of old techniques through their paces, from the first photograph to the last one.