Who hasn\u2019t taken a picture?\u00a0 Most everyone has some form of social media and has taken a photo and posted it and has received praise for how good it looked that day.\u00a0 Well, for photojournalists, that isn\u2019t always the case.\u00a0 They may post pictures on the web and show a story they covered and receive praise for it. \u00a0But they have to sometimes go to some of the worst natural disasters and get photos of them.\u00a0 \u201cYou rage inside at the helplessness. \u00a0To try to deal with it, you seek out elements of humanity and courage.\u201d\u2014Carol Guzy.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
One of the most famous example of photojournalism to ever be taken is the photo by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines going through rubble to put up the American flag in 1945 on Iwo Jima.\u00a0 This picture shows the determination of these men to go through all this rubble and devastation from war to put the flag up.\u00a0 They took this extra time to see that it was put up for the world to see.\u00a0 They wanted people to know that they won that battle.<\/p>\n
There was a photo that was taken in 1969 called \u201c The Execution of a Viet Cong Guerilla\u201d by Eddie Adams that was quite shocking.\u00a0 It was during one of Adams\u2019 many coverages of war and shows one ugly side of it.\u00a0 It shows two men, one holding and aiming a gun at the other\u2019s head.\u00a0 The man who has the gun pointed at him is bound from behind and has blood dripping from his mouth.\u00a0 He looks scared, sad, tired and angry all at once.\u00a0 In the background are some soldiers who appear to be laughing as a man\u2019s life is about to be taken away.\u00a0 All of this was happening in the street, where anyone could see it.\u00a0 The prisoner was being executed because that morning, he murdered 12 people.\u00a0 This journalist captured this photo the second before the prisoner\u2019s life ended.\u00a0 It shows what someone\u2019s last minute on Earth can be, full of fear and hatred and it shows the revenge the executioner is able to take on him.<\/p>\n
Nick Ut took a photo in 1973 that became a wildly memorable image called \u201cNapalm girl.\u201d\u00a0 It shows children running down the street crying and in pain.\u00a0 One child stands out.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little girl who is naked and running down the street crying out because she is burned by napalm.\u00a0 There are soldiers in the background walking behind the children looking for the enemy, not concerned about the children.\u00a0 This shows the aftermath of a napalm bomb that the U.S. dropped in Vietnam during their war.\u00a0 Napalm is a substance that is used to make atomic bombs.\u00a0 It\u2019s deadly and if a human is in close enough range, it can vaporize them.\u00a0 It\u2019s highly radioactive. \u00a0Some people who were in contact with it have received cancer diagnoses and others still have scars from where it burnt them.\u00a0 The photo shows that while napalm takes an enemy out, it also affects innocent people like the little girl.<\/p>\n
The Colombian mudslide in 1986 was tragic.\u00a0 Twenty thousand people were buried alive in mud.\u00a0 One photo shows the desperation those people felt as they tried to get out.\u00a0 Carol Guzy took many photos of the mudslide and named it \u201cBuried Alive.\u201d\u00a0 All you can see in one picture is an arm popping out from the mud.\u00a0 It appears to have stopped moving when the owner tried to take another swipe at the mud, to get free.\u00a0 Another picture shows a girl in the mud and water, with her head barely hanging above the water.\u00a0 People around her are holding her head up because if they don\u2019t, her head will go underwater.\u00a0 She was talking to the people around her and they did everything they could to get her out but could not.\u00a0 This photo shows the ugly, dark side of photojournalism.\u00a0 It shows how awful the situation was and what rescuers and families saw while looking for family members.<\/p>\n
William Snyder captured a photo in 1991 that shows a nurse in a Romanian orphanage.\u00a0 She is holding something in a pot and has two children. \u00a0One she is holding and for the other she is holding a cup so that he can drink.\u00a0 Other children look on at her as she shows her determination to make sure they are fed and taken care of.\u00a0 One child is looking off into the distance, almost as though he is wondering where his parents are or if he will ever be adopted. \u00a0\u00a0This picture captured how hard this nurse was working to ensure that these children were taken care of. \u00a0And it shows one child yearning to know where his family is.\u00a0 Are they dead?\u00a0 Did they not want him?\u00a0 Where were they?\u00a0 The child is pondering all those questions and appears to be lost in space.<\/p>\n
There are many photos that show the beautiful side of life, but often those don\u2019t win Pulitzers.\u00a0 The ones that win Pulitzers can show the ugly side of life: the man before he was executed, the little girl naked and crying out in pain from napalm, the arm that stopped moving before it could finish digging the rest of its body out.\u00a0 The pictures are hard to look at and even harder to take, but they get the message across.\u00a0 They show what happens when a mudslide strikes and buries 20,000 people.\u00a0 They show what napalm did to young children.\u00a0 They also show some of the happiest moments in some lives, however, such as when the men raised the American flag in battle during World War II.\u00a0 As John White said, \u201cEveryone has a story.\u00a0 And we sing their song.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t do it—-if the journalist doesn\u2019t do it—-who\u2019s going to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n
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