Eric Durban
The photos displayed were all fascinating. So many of them cut to the core of who we are as people and what our world is like. I particularly liked the "Holdout" photo of a woman leaving her house after Katrina. Before, during, and after the disaster the media flooded our country with anything they could think of showing. Some of it was great journalism, and other things were just shown for the sake of covering the subject. Photography can take us to places will never be and this photo certainly did that. I believe this is also an instance of the power of photography over video. The event becomes much more gripping and intense because we have it captured in one image. Live TV is great, but I don't think it would have been able to do justice to this moment as the photo did.
The photo of the gypsy boys was also very intriguing. It was almost a profile picture without being a profile. We see their facial expressions without seeing their eyes. Having the tattoo's in the photo kind of creates the profile. To me it seems like the boys recognize each other from their various animal tattoo's. It takes the reader into a new world they probably haven't encountered.
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