Tag: John Tlumacki

  • Let’s Be Professional About This

    Link: There’s a big difference between a professional plying their trade and an amateur. In this image I see evidence of two people (in particular) reacting to an unexpected attack, an atrocity, in a professional manner. The first is the officer on the left, who unlike your average celluloid action star, has her finger in…

  • Globe’s Tlumacki: ‘I am dealing with trauma & trying to keep busy’ following Boston tragedy

    Link: Tlumacki told me that he found himself “a little emotional, and took the yellow still photographer’s marathon bib that I wore that day, and I knelt down in front of the cross and I placed it. And I went back to my car because this was too heavy.”

  • TIME Picks the Best Photos of 2013: Bangladesh, Syria, and More

    TIME Picks the Best Photos of 2013: Bangladesh, Syria, and More

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Our top ten photographs of 2013 celebrate a variety of images from a multitude of photographers, including seasoned photojournalists Tyler Hicks (the Westgate Mall Massacre in Nairobi), Philippe Lopez, (Super Typhoon Haiyan’s destructive wrath upon the Philippines), and John Tlumacki, for his…

  • The Best of Photojournalism 2014

    The Best of Photojournalism 2014

    The Best of Photojournalism 2014 The National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contest winners were announced Monday. John Tlumacki and Sean Proctor won top honors, and Patrick Smith was named Sports Photographer of the year. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/the-best-of-photojournalism-2014/?gwh=9C954996226B97368F48A9B450499ECB&gwt=pay John Tlumacki of The Boston Globe was named the Photojournalist of the Year (Large Markets),…

  • Tragedy and the Role of Professional Photojournalists

    Link: Tragedy and the Role of Professional Photojournalists – Assignment Chicago When spectators with cameras were fleeing, they headed towards the madness of the explosion. Tlumacki took his iconic picture just 15 seconds after the first explosion.   Think about this for a moment. At the finish line, there must have been hundreds of cameras.…

  • Tragedy at the Boston Marathon: One Photographer’s Eyewitness Account

    Tragedy at the Boston Marathon: One Photographer’s Eyewitness Account

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/15/tragedy-in-boston-one-photographers-eyewitness-account/#1 LightBox spoke with Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki, who photographed the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Tlumacki, who has photographed more than 20 marathons in his 30 years at the Globe, describes the sheer chaos of the…