Photojournalism - School Post 1 of 6

For any of you that happen to read my blog at all, you may be confused as to why I'm writing about photojournalism and what this has to do with my blogging styles from before. Well I am in a Social Media class and have been assigned to write at least six blog posts that talk about something within a broadcasting and journalistic stand point for my final. I decided that photojournalist would be a fairly decent grouping to write about and thought I would highlight a few journalists that have caught my attention over the years.

This particular blog, I'll be talking about Mary Chind from the Des Moines Register. She has won first place in 2010’s NPPA Still Photo Contest for a wonderfully dramatic , heartbreaking, anxiety filled photo of a rescuer saving a woman from drowning. You can see the determination in the face of the rescuer as he reaches for what appears to be the only visible part of his rescuee; her arm.
Photojournalists all too often are overlooked for their ability to bring you, the viewer, directly into the situation that is happening before their camera. Without them we wouldn’t have any visual recollection of anything that’s ever happened in our past!

The Des Moines Register: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/

NPPA Contest: http://bop.nppa.org/2010/still_photography/winners/?cat=DON&place=1st