Photo Essay Of Boston Bombing Suspect Was Shot By Former BU Student

A picture story shot by Boston University student Johannes Hirn of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was done as a final project for BU photojournalism professor Peter Southwick’s class, the teacher told News Photographer magazine today.

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/60950

Southwick said his former student asked him whether or not he should take the photos of the Marathon bomber down off his PhotoShelter Web site before the images got downloaded or stolen and used without his permission. But by the time he raised that question, the images were already appearing on several blogs and Web sites. “That horse was already out of the barn,” Southwick said.