Paying forward a little advice for the budding photojournalist

Whenever I received such an assignment from my boss at the Sun-Tattler, Rick Shaw (who now directs Pictures of the Year International based out of the Missouri School of Journalism), he would always say the same thing. ‘The event is not sacred.’

What did he mean?  He meant that he wanted his photographers to look beyond the obvious.  He wanted us to bring back story-telling images from the fringes.

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