Alum Chang W. Lee (Tisch '93) was profiled by James Estrin for The New York Times Lens Blog. The feature highlights Lee's years as a staff photographer at The Times and features an incredible slideshow of photos from previous Olympics. Lee will is currently covering this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. From the August 3, 2016 article:
Being a top photographer at the Olympics takes meticulous planning, razor-sharp instincts, visual virtuosity and the ability to recognize drama – attributes that Chang Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, has in abundance. This week, he is in Rio de Janeiro covering his eighth Olympic Games. Despite that experience, he says he has found it more difficult to shoot each successive trip.
“You think you know what you’re doing, but there are always new moments and new human drama,” he said. “You can plan for many things like remote cameras, close-ups and clean, beautiful pictures with shadows and color. But there’s always a moment that you can never plan for that you don’t want to miss.”
It is always a challenge to find clever, new photographs but the images that show human dignity are the most important to him. It’s usually a single moment, he said, that defines an athlete and reveals his or her lifelong struggle to reach the Olympics.