How to Photograph The Olympics

A Photo Editor talks to Simon Barnett, Directory of Photography for Newsweek, about his plans for covering a sporting event on the scale of this year's Olympic games.

Tell me a little bit about working on an event of this magnitude from a DoP's point of view. Lot's of meetings, last minute adjustments of coverage and a ton of frames to edit?

For us, this is the first time that our focus is overwhelmingly to our web presence, so with that we've come up with a new approach to editing. Each of the three photographers will manage their own photo blog, editing and uploading their best images -along with, I hope, some very personal anecdotes about what it's like to be there experiencing it. I hope this creates a form of photo "Survivor" between them, where they are in a kind of creative competition. Then, I'll go in to their blogs each day and edit what I deem to be the 'best of' which will be up on a showcased Newsweek.com gallery around noon each day. It's kind of photographic natural selection.

Sounds awesome. Updating my RSS feeds as we speak.