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.

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