When the Olympics meets Photography
I tried to watched as much of these 2008 Olympics as possible. I use to live in China and have a natural affinity, love and respect for the Chinese. I had wanted to travel there this year to photograph the Harbin Ice Festival but travel was probably going to be too expensive for me. Instead I’m making plans to go to Cuba instead.
Anyway, here are various links that show some of the more memorable moments at the Beijing 2008 Olympics:
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- Photograph by Vincent Laforet for NEWSWEEK
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- Photograph by Donald Miralle for NEWSWEEK
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- Photography by Mike Powell for NEWSWEEK
The Newsweek blog is directly covered by the photographers themselves who were at the games, at the Newsweek they mention what gear they use and helpful include the lenses and apertures they shot at, though generally, most if not all of them were at the lenses maximum aperture anyway.
The Guardian Newspaper in particular has some great landscape shots which only just manage to squeeze everything into frame. The Stern.de website presents the abstract and the just plain odd, (I favour the abstract) text in German but the images speak for themselves. Some of my favourites being numbers 8, 10, 26, 30, 33, 50 and 53. (There are many more but 7 will do).
The Independent though presents a more serious form of photography and takes a documentary/reportage style approach to the Olympics and its effect on the Chinese who hosted them.
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