Olympic Fashion Photography - Photography is Nothing with Zach Dobson & Courtney McCracken

Episode 24 - There is typically lots of fashion & editorial photography that surrounds the Olympics. For this year’s 2026 Winter Olympics, Zach & Courtney found three cool photoshoots, but feel like there should be a lot more!

In this episode we talk about… 

• Win Tam’s high-fashion photos of Team China for VogueMan China
• French photographer Mathieu Forget photographing Italian Olympians in a 5-star Milan hotel
• Newel Odin’s sleek, modern images of Team France

We also take an historical look at Olympics editorial photoshoots by Annie Leibovitz, Bruce Weber, and Ryan McGinley and compare them to what we’re seeing today. 

PLUS, Courtney talks about how the Olympics are neither the time nor place for public wedding proposals and Zach gets up in arms about how photographers need to be credited correctly for their work.

“Photography is nothing–it's life that interests me.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson 

Index

0:00 - Where are the photoshoots? Are major publications commissioning less work?

0:45 - Olympic fashion photography

1:58 - Win Tam’s photos for VogueMan China

8:13 - Mathieu Forget photographs Olympians in a 5-star hotel

13:51 - Nawel Odin photographs the French Olympic bobsled & luge team

17:39 - It seems like magazines are doing fewer photoshoots for the Olympics

20:59 - Where are the editorial photoshoots by women?

23:16 - Annie Leibovitz’s 1996 Olympic photoshoot for Vanity Fair

30:59 - Where are the big photoshoots of Olympians?

33:00 - Too much coverage of Breezy Johnson’s engagement

38:11 - The right way to give photo credits to photographers

Find Zach

Website: https://zachdobson.com/

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Find Courtney

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtneymccracken_/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@happy_life_lessons

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About the Podcast

Photography is Nothing with Zach Dobson and Courtney McCracken is a weekly conversation about photography and all its impact. Each week Zach and Courtney discuss their latest adventures, life lessons, and anything else that sounds interesting. 

Photography is Nothing invites you into the conversations they were already having as a married couple running a photography and media company in the current world.

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