Interview with Eros Hoagland | The Photo Brigade

Interview with Eros Hoagland – The Photo Brigade

Photographer Zach D Roberts interviews photojournalist Eros Hoagland about his new book, “Reckoning the Frontier”, featuring shots from his years along the border of the US and Mexico.

via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2015/02/interview-with-eros-hoagland/

I think violence attracts a lot of people, not just journalists. But journalists do seem to love it so. Not that violence is the only magnet for our profession, not at all. But it does seem to be a central attraction. Are we vultures, perhaps, but vultures play an important role in the ecosystem, so I don’t really see that as a bad thing. On second thought, we behave much worse than vultures in many cases