The Hart Park drowning photo | You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story

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The Hart Park drowning photo

The afternoon of July 28, 1985 would change my career. I was 27. I have told the story about this photo so many times, in interviews, at conferences, at gatherings with friends and colleagues and a…

via You can’t have my job, but I’ll tell you a story: http://johnhartephoto.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/the-hart-park-drowning-photo/

In 1985, I shot a picture at the scene of a drowning in Hart Park in Bakersfield. The picture became one of the most controversial of the decade, and at age 27 and just four years into my career, I was thrust into the national media spotlight