NEWWORK MAGAZINE & Communication Arts
Those Olympic Diving images are still making the rounds late in the year. Very happy to see them picked for ISSUE #4 of NEWWORK MAGAZINE, a fantastic fine art photography magazine in NYC, and Communication Arts 2009 Photography Annual. Its nice to see the images in a different forum (fine art) than they were originally [...]
World Press Photo award
Yesterday I awoke to some very good news – I placed 3rd in the Sports Action Stories category of the World Press Photo contest, the world’s largest and most prestigious annual photojournalism contest. The work I submitted was shot during the Beijing Olympics Games in August, 2008. You can view the series on the World [...]
Best picture request I’ve ever had
A few days ago I got an email from the brother of an American Olympic diver. He said his family was putting together a photo collage of his sister’s diving experience at the Beijing Olympics, and that an image I had taken of her was “by far, our family’s favorite photo of my sister’s diving [...]
Olympics Postmortem
The Olympics have come and gone in a flash. I was in Beijing for almost a month, and it really seems like a matter of a few days. Well, time flies when you’re having fun and getting very little sleep. It was an incredible experience in many ways. First of all, my team at epa [...]
First we take Beijing. . . .
Flying to Beijing tomorrow for the insane circus-circus of the Olympics. I’ll have about a week to roam around, check the venues, work on some features, buy some groceries, and generally get my bearings and then BANG! the opening ceremony on the 8th, followed by a few weeks poolside in the cube shooting swimming, diving, [...]