This posting is a little late to the party, but if you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance that it will be of interest to you.
Newsweek DOP Simon Barnett has assembled a “Dream Team” of photographers to cover the Beijing Games for the magazine - and in an inspired and original way they are covering the Olympics from a very unique perspective (an increasingly rare feat). The “Dream Team” as Mr. Barnett has deemed them, consists of three former Allsport colleagues of mine, Vincent Laforet, Donald Miralle and Mike Powell. When I first began working with Allsport (now a part of Getty Images), these four were staff members, whom I got to know and admire.
In the planning for Newsweek’s Olympic coverage, it was decided to create an “open book”, a behind the scenes, photographers POV coverage of the games. They’ve been blogging and posting their selection of photographs and telling stories of their trials & tribulations, successes and failures. It is a wonderfully honest look at life as a photographer, 3 photographers, as they cover the biggest, most organized event in the world.
For a bit on the story behind the blog please see this interview with Simon Barnett by Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor blog here.
This is a link to the Newsweek blog Visions of China: A 2008 Olympics Picture Blog
Just so you know, the front page is the most recent posting, so you’ll have to skip to the end if you want to read their tales from the start, which I strongly recommend.
For those of you that may think that being a photographer is easy, I hope you’ll read some of the journal entries from Donald, Vince and Mike as well as the notes from Simon, Beth and the other Newsweek editors - it will be a real eye opener.
In closing, just want to congratulate the guys on doing an excellent job with an original idea - a wonderful use of modern technology, providing a fresh look at an event that’s as heavily documented as the Olympics are, which, needless to say, is not an easy task.
Red Dots galore.. and not just the pictures (the posts too) BRAVO GENTS!!
The Olympics are one of the few big sporting events I have yet to cover… I have however covered a number of the Olympic Trials.. here’s a couple of photos from the Track and Field Team Trials which I shot while with Allsport.
Marion Jones 2000 Olympic Trials - M David Leeds/Allsport
John Capel wins 100m Trials - M David Leeds/Allsport
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