The Associated Press had thousands of photos from which to choose for its Photo of the Year, and it's not surprising that a photo showing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was selected for 2005.
This emotional image of a woman being tended to by another evacuee at the Louisiana Superdome was captured by Richard Alan Hannon, a photographer with The Advocate of Baton Rouge, La.
We ran the photo in the Sept. 2 Tracy Press.
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Moments after Hannon took the photo on Sept. 1, police carried the woman away and said she died.
4 comments:
No one ever offered me coffee...In the photo department we often have people submit their photos of news and sports events for publication in the Tracy Press. Sometimes we use them, most often we don't. I expect to see more photos appearing on blogs as readers find ways to get the pictures they feel are important out to the masses, sort of like an obit picture for a dog.
Posted by: Glenn at October 16, 2005 02:25 PM
Thanks for putting up that photo, Cheri! This will be one of the many awards this photo is going to win over the course of the rest of the year. Like I have said to my fellow photogs here in the photo deptartment, this years Pulitzers will come out of the photos taken from the first few days of Katrina's aftermath. Keep an eye out!
Posted by: Hime Romero at October 14, 2005 04:02 PM
Welcome to the blogosphere. It is always a welcome sight to have real journalists acknowledge and accept the existence of the new medium. Because then with the guidance and good examples real journalists bring to the table, the better the medium becomes.
I have a few points to bring out, though.
First, in your latest Editor’s Notes, you invited us all to read your blog, but you did not provide us with your URL so we may not have a difficult time looking for it. Was it given at some earlier issue?
Secondly, the blog now provides archives starting from April 2005, so I am supposing that your previous Editor’s Notes, have also been posted as blog entries. Thus, you really have been blogging for a while, since April at least.
Thirdly, your concerns, or fears if you may, in the move by Yahoo! to lump blog entries with mainstream news, are all well taken. And everybody, both news consumers and those who report news, should proceed with great caution. The blogosphere, with its very loose definition and restrictions, is now one big blackhole that is growing exponentially as we speak.
However, the very determinable reason why the blogs gained prominence and general acceptance was precisely because mainstream media was viewed as wanting in certain areas, and they are said to have filled the void. Any thoughts on this?
Again, welcome and here’s wishing you success in your newest endeavor. As new Tracy residents, we’re looking forward to entries in your blog.
An excellent photograph to be sure. And one that America desperately needs to see for it tells a story of humanity at its best during the worst of situations.
I am sure there just as many moving photos that have occured during this same period of time. However I cannot help but think that it's really a matter of being in the place at the right time and the actual photographer has very little to do with the outcome of what he or she has captured.
While these types of photos certainly tell a story I cannot help but think there are other photographs, equally as moving, that also tell their stories but are overlooked or dismissed because they don't emphasize tragedy.
We see so much negativity in our media today why don't we see more stories that are uplifting to the human spirit? Why must all of these photos be dealing with human suffering?
Dave Hardesty
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