SOME NEWS PHOTOS CHANGE HISTORY; MANY OTHERS record the making of history.
Having done photography along with reporting in my early days, I was always interested in news photography. Journalism books say a picture is equal to 1000 words. That was why in my book, ‘A Town Called Penury – the Changing Culture of Indian Journalism’, I had a chapter on photojournalists.
As I mentioned there, a photograph that played a major role in making most Americans oppose the Vietnam war and forced the US to abandon it, was of a 9-year old Vietnamese running naked Continue reading Lenseman: Witness to History