Of dancing croissants; sleep deprivation and suffering

While many of us watch the Tour on TV, photographer Casey B. Gibson is at the Tour, looking for things you'll rarely see on the tube.

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A Stage 6 photo gallery

By Casey B. Gibson

Axel Merckx as you see him on TV, in the break on Col du Donon...

Axel Merckx as you see him on TV, in the break on Col du Donon…

Photo: Casey B. Gibson

While many of us watch the Tour on TV, photographer Casey B. Gibson is at the Tour, looking for things you’ll rarely see on the tube.

Photo Gallery

  • Axel Merckx as you see him on TV, in the break on Col du Donon...
  • Casey B. Gibson
  • Photographing the Tour is long hours of waiting, then frenzied bursts of energy, and very long days. Taylor Johnson, photographe
  • This poor girl has to dance her way across France as a croissant in the publicity caravan, all 2100 miles of it.
  • George Hincapie confers with Freddie Viaene at the finish line.
  • The peloton rolls through a scenic village near Commercy, early in the stage.
  • Paris may not have gotten the Olympics, but France leads the world in haystack art at Tour time.

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