Cool Italian Olympic swim team photography for Speedo!

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Documentary Photography with the Italian Olympic swimming squad!

When the Italian Olympic swim squad came to Speedo in Nottingham, We were tasked to shoot documentary photography to record the visit.

The pictures were all Hush-hush until after the official launch, which was on December 1st, of Speedo’s new hi-tech swimming costumes.

We photographed some of Italy’s top athletes, including 100 meter World Champion Fillipo Magnini, Fabio Scozzoli, and Luca Dotto.

You can see how La Gazzetta used the material (In colour..) .. La Gazzetta dello Sporto!

In addition to the colour edit, I also produced a short Black and white edit of the pictures and present a few here for you to enjoy.

Italian Swim Team documentary photography by Doug Marke for Speedo
Italian swim team photography by Doug Marke at Page One
Italian Swim team photographed by Doug Marke at Page One
Italian Swim team testing at Speedo, photographed by Doug Marke
documentary photography of the Italian olympic squad from 2012
Italian swim team at Speedo Nottingham, documentary photography by Doug Marke

We started the photography at Speedo’s hi tech development centre, and then spent a day at their secret testing pool.

All the photography was off the cuff and with natural light, the originals presented to the client in colour.

For all you gear junkies, everything was shot on the 5dmk2 and the 7d, 17-40L, 24-70L, and 70-200L all pressed into action…. ISO circa 800-1000 iso…. originals in colour but I like the black and white!

Ciao!

This blog was first published in 2011

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