The Paris Olympics - 2024
AFP Photographers team
AFP
Agence France-Presse had been preparing for a year, scrutinizing every detail to determine the optimal position, but rain disrupted plans for the opening ceremony.
Around 50 photographers were stationed in the air, on the rooftops of monuments, on boat decks and on the banks of the Seine to broadcast some 3,500 photos on July 26.
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To cover the Games, no fewer than 70 photojournalists were mobilized on Olympic venues in Paris, French provinces and French Polynesia, to provide us with postcard-like settings. Every day, an average of 6,000 images were transmitted in real time to some twenty editors, responsible for correcting, cropping and captioning the shots.
The teams also had underwater cameras at the bottom of the Olympic pool and some twenty robots under the roofs of the venues to produce zenithal images; not to mention the many remote-controlled cameras at the edges of the tracking fields, offering a series of different angles. Everything moves fast, and for the 100-meter event, that represents the standard value, only 40 seconds elapse between the first image and its reception by the media.
Pierre Fernandez, Head of Content Promotion - AFP Information Department
