Olympic Divers: behind the images
I’ve been really overwhelmed by the positive response to the diving images that won prizes at both World Press Photo and the Sony World Photography Awards. I want to thank everyone for the kindness, I’m really humbled by this experience. When I entered these competitions, I honestly didn’t envision winning. I really only entered to [...]
First Place, Sport: Sony World Photography Awards
Today the Sony World Photography Awards were officially announced, and I won first place in the Sports category. My winning entry was a tighter edit of a series that placed 3rd at the World Press Photo competition a month ago. This is really exciting news, especially as the organizers are going to fly me out [...]
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, [...]
The state of the working photographer today
Here’s a fascinating article written by Vincent Laforet, a former staff photographer with the NYTimes. He talks about the general hard times in the media industry at the moment, and in particular how this affects photographers. There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the air these days, and for good reason. Assignment rates have [...]