Getting the Right Shot
When NEWSWEEK first requested a photo shoot with Michelle Kwan, her press rep said the magazine could have 10 minutes. “We ended up with eight hours,” says photo editor Simon Barnett. “We wanted to do something different, and she seemed to have a blast.” Photographing the Games themselves is a different sort of challenge. “It’s a logistical nightmare,” says Kelli Reed Grant, who, with Carrie Levy, is editing pictures in Salt Lake City. One big difference between these Games and the past: technology. “In Sydney we had one photographer shooting digital,” says Grant. “Now they all are. That’s changing the face of the Olympics.”
