Between the lines

"... the successful applicant will have the limitless (saintly) patience required to endure 4 weeks of endless, repetitive and ultimately pointless conversations with private security guards, plastic police and the corporate sponsors spinmeisters that will ensue from getting a camera out within 100 yards of the Olympic security zone (AKA England). While a sense of authenticity is vital to the final work, strict adherence to brand guidelines must be observed; i.e. no images of six mile lines of stationary traffic being bypassed by corporate VIPs, no protests, disgruntled locals, flaky infrastructure, tanks, surface to air missiles, overcrowded transport, price gouging, pickpocketing or miscellaneous criminality. Use of image manipluation/CGI is encouraged in order to present the "true" spirit of 2012. Ethics are not required, therefore applicants associated with prior prizewinning documentary or photojournaistic work need not apply..."

buyout

in fact they are looking for over 236 person/days of work spread between 3 people over the course of 63 days. They are asking for the photographers to produce model released photography and irrevocably relinquish copyright to all images captured. No credit, no additional payments. It is a bad deal...

Only apply if you have a PC

A complete complicated mess to apply online if you have a MAC … which is about 99% of all Media Users. The whole system is built around PC systems which is old 80's mentality to MAC users. Their support is equally incompetent.