Try Not to Kill Yourself

I never ask someone to do something for the camera I wouldn’t do. This has gotten me into trouble. Trying to combine the water and bike elements of the triathlon, I thought Jenny Gutierrez, America’s representative in the women’s triathlon for the Sydney Olympic Games, could pedal a bike off a diving board into a pool, and I would be at the bottom photographing her descent, backlit with strobes, in an explosion of bubbles.

“I never ask someone to do something for the camera I wouldn’t do. This has gotten me into trouble.”