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Nice photo, great display.
ReplyDeleteBut I would have like to have seen a couple people hugging/crying, etc. in the foreground.
That's the difference between good and great photojournalism.
You're right. Journalism is and always will be about people and the things they do. Before my lay off in July of 2009 I was a staff photographer for a New Jersey paper. Even in a scenic weather art photo I always made sure to have a person in the photo, otherwise it was just a pretty shot or a shot of some destruction. Without a face in the photo there's no human element.
ReplyDeleteJ.D. Schwalm would have gotten this photo, WITH someone in it.
ReplyDeleteR.I.P., JD!