Jen Elston's Blog #2: Picture Hunt and Street Pictures

David Snider's Street Pictures are a different type of photojournalism than what I would think most consider when they think of this sequence.  His photographs capture life in a candid way, with simple, everyday moments captured forever on film.  His pictures tell a story, which is the basic purpose of photojournalism - to tell a story in a visual, two-dimensional form. His detailed photograph of hands in "Sonny's Rosary Beads" is an excellent photograph. You can get a sense of how old this person is, and maybe even the life they have lived from a single picture.  

In the picture hunt article, the author compared photojournalism and the hunt for a picture to hunting an animal or a living being.  It is the author's believe that enterprising is a vital aspect of photojournalism and it was his goal to share that with young journalists.  After reading this article, I felt both prepared to make a good photograph, and terrified.  His passion for photojournalism and his desire to share stories with the world is what makes a photojournalist a photojournalist and not a photographer.