September 19, 2007© 2006 Joao Silva/NYT
This image changed my life, but not as much as it changed the lives of at least seven child-slaves in Ghana.
This is the photograph from the New York Times that spurred a hair-dresser from Missouri to rescue them. The same photo galvanized Oprah’s small army of assistants and “people” to do [...]
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September 12, 2007© 1994 James Nachtwey/VII
This photograph stands for numerous images captured by James Nachtwey. The documentary War Photographer certainly impacted me, and even though it shows the affect of years of placing yourself in conflict zones, chronicling moments of intense agony and despair, it served to strengthen my resolve to be involved in that sort [...]
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September 4, 2007© 1968 Eddie Adams/AP
This photograph was referenced in the 2006 Clint Eastwood-directed film “Flags of Our Fathers.” The narrator was talking about one image being the turning point of a war. The iconic raising of the flag over Iwo Jima, the most reproduced image in the world, supposedly helped turn the tide of [...]
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August 30, 2007Iraqi War Orphan, © 2005 David Leeson/The Dallas Morning News
David Leeson, ACU alum and 2004 Pulitzer prize winner, spoke during the Centennial Celebration at Abilene Christian University. I remember sitting in Cullen Auditorium as he walked us through several images he had captured while embedded with a unit in Iraq. Something in me [...]
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August 29, 2007I’m posting this even though it’s a bad photograph.
It’s a collection of “things” that were found inside the Ntarama Church, used by those folks that were massacred there in 1994.
I had only bought my first Digital SLR a few weeks prior to this trip to Rwanda in 2005. I played around in Abilene, getting [...]
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August 27, 2007Unknown Rebel, © Jeff Widener/AP
Many thanks to Jeff Widener for permission to repost this photograph. This is the first in a series of posts that will highlight images that have personally impacted me.
On June 5, 1989, the photographer captured this image of an unknown man staring down a row of tanks in China’s Tiananmen [...]
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