Kenji Nagai, a Japanese photographer, was shot by soldiers as they fired to
disperse a crowd of anti-government protesters in Myanmar. He continued to
attempt to take photographs even as he lay mortally wounded.
The life of a photojournalist appeals to many. For some the motivation
comes from a pursuit of excitement, for others it may be a pursuit of
beauty, some may pursue it out of a sense of duty to record injustices and for
others it may be a desire to travel and to meet new people.
Why a photojournalist chooses to cover events doesn't matter. What does
matter is that the photographer is there and is recording the event as a witness
for those of us unable to witness it ourselves. Sometimes exciting, sometimes
dangerous, sometimes a matter of life and death. Always newsworthy.
The death of a photojournalist, like the death of any other innocent, is
tragic.
See all of this week's compelling photography from around the world at Pictures of the Week.
-Lee Van Grack
1 comment:
Nagai Kneji was wounded by Myanmar soldiers, kept shooting photo's and ultimately died from his wounds. The only thing besides the image of this photojournalist literally dying for hs craft that should possibly win not only for this week but for this year would be whatever might be in his own camera. If we ever get to see that
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