Χτες ανακοινώθηκαν τα δημοσιογραφικά Βραβεία Πούλιτζερ. Κοιτάζοντας τους νικητές -υπάρχει ένα online σάιτ, αρκετές καλές εφημερίδες, σημαντικοί ρεπόρτερ και φωτορεπόρτερ- ξεχώρισα το όνομα της Barbara Davidson που βραβεύτηκε στην κατηγορία Φωτογραφίας.
Η Davidson δημοσίευε τη δουλειά της αποκλειστικά στου Los Angeles Times και από εκεί (μέσω Pulitzer) επέλεξα μερικές απ' τις πιο δυνατές φωτογραφίες που έδωσε τον τελευταίο χρόνο στην εφημερίδα - και χάρη στις οποίες βραβεύτηκε χτες.
Κρατάω και τις αυθεντικές λεζάντες:
A dove is released at the recent memorial service for 5-year-old Aaron Jerel Shannon Jr., who died after he was shot in the head by a stray bullet on Halloween. Shannon had been modeling his new Spider-Man costume in the backyard of his South Los Angeles home.
Rose Smith was coming home from the market to prepare for a Memorial Day potluck. She heard gunshots outside her apartment in Watts Nickerson Gardens housing project and ran. She was reaching for the front door when she felt the bullets tear into her arm, her jaw, and her back. She was three months pregnant. Both she and the baby survived, but Smith will never walk again. She named the baby Miracle. In this photo, Miracle lifts her mother’s leg as Rose Smith slides into her wheelchair. The family had stem cells from Miracle's umbilical cord reserved in hopes that doctors may one day use them to help restore feeling in Smith's spine.
Tori Rowles, center, flanked by her brother Forrest Rowles and friend Kat Mokry, attends burial services. Tori and Melody, who planned to go to college together, were inseparable. They planned to be fashion designers. Tori was next to Melody when she was shot when they left a homecoming football game. 'She was taken away by two gang people, and they had no idea how many people they hurt.' Tori said.
Pastor Wyman Jones of Sweet Hill Baptist Church in South Los Angeles carries a wooden cross through the Nickerson Gardens public housing complex to protest gang violence.
Seventeen year-old Edwin Cobbin was lifting weights in the front yard of his house in Hawthorne when dark SUV pulled up. Two men got out, searched his pockets and asked him what gang he belonged to. Edwin told them he wasn’t in a gang, but the men shot him and drove away.
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