Celebrating excellence in the field of local newspaper photography
Basildon Echo: Rat-run road full of potholes
A true classic of the genre - angry people pointing forlornly at a hole in the road. Newspaper photography at its best.
Local news photographers are hugely skilled and poorly paid, and get sent to photograph miserable people gurning at uncooked meat products. Here, we celebrate their work.
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4 comments:
Did they have to count them all?
You know what this means, don't you. You are now entering the curmudgeon years.
Next: ear hair.
This is going to be my new favourite blog.
This is wonderful. A dying craft, the "getting people to look slightly peeved for a page seven lead on something impenetrably dull".
This kind of photo journalism is technically demanding, having to get a picture that both shows the complainers looking glum enough and at the same time illustrating whatever is being complained about in sufficient detail as well as writing supportive copy.
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