Doug

Crabwalk managed to predict most winners based on the leaked semi-finalist list, while Malkin sounds peeved. Elephants in Academia notes the political slant of the non-disaster awards. So Here Is This looks at the (dare we say deeply indecisive?) three-way award for national reporting. Photojournalism News Blog has photos of triumphant Dallas and Denver. Power Line recalls the Pulitzer Prize for treason.

I was a photojournalist for about 10 years. I finally got out because I grew
tired making photos of folks who weren’t happy that I was taking their
picture. Whether it was the young man accused of cutting his dad’s head off
and hurling into the street or the school administrator accused of wrong
doing. And there was the part where I thought a little too much about a
photographer I had dinner with the week before he died on a runway in South
America.

Anyway, I moved to studio portraiture where folks except for most kids were
there voluntarily. I always felt badly when a child in my studio cried. It
was never my intent to make them cry. I can’t imagine why someone would want
to make a happy child cry. There are always reason enough for kids to cry
without an adult generating that emotion from a child.

The justification of making a child cry “because it comes close to the anger
and helplessness I feel about our current political and social situation”
doesn’t make any sense to me at all. Try standing naked in front of the
White House on a cold and wintry day and leave the kids alone.

dave dornlas

www.phototoday.net