Topic 1: Photographer of The Week
1. Bernie Boston
2. Bernie Boston is an American photographer born in DC in 1933. Boston was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a photograph he took of Coretta Scott King with the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Capitol. He also covered every president from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.
3. Boston seemed to have a knack for timing, even when the environment is extremely chaotic.
4. Boston took the famous Flower Power photos of anti-war protestors in the 1960's.
Topic 2: Lynsey Addario
I felt somewhat similarly about this as I did when reading Edna Buchanan's book: this job is insane. I can't imagine being a photojournalist in a literal war zone. I also felt an overwhelming sense of needing to follow your instincts in both books, particularly Lynsey's. The biggest lesson I've learned is that you have to try to stay as calm as possible, regardless of whether you're covering a piano recital or a literal war. I was impressed that Lynsey was still able to take photographs and somehow cope with the knowledge that she may be killed at any moment. It seems that her feeling that those events needed to be covered were a large part of her motivation for continuing to live through such harrowing situations and keep doing the job.
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