The best photos from Sen. Barack Obama’s election night rally weren’t taken by a newspaper photographer. They didn’t run a day later in print. Indeed what appears to be the most intimate documentary photojournalism from the historic night in Chicago night ran raw, unfiltered and direct to audience. On Flickr. Under a Creative Commons license.
The campaign photographer David Katz probably won’t win any traditional journalism awards for his great efforts documenting life in the humble Obama house with his family moments before accepting the election results. He probably won’t be allowed to enter any of them and he probably doesn’t need to. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Katz doesn’t get the gig to be Obama’s White House photographer. That’s a big job and it looks like he’s got the access to take us all along. Let’s hope he continues to use Flickr and other Web-oriented sharing tools to showcase his work. This is transparency at its best.
Honest, raw and unedited.
David’s use of Flickr here is game changing stuff.
7 p.m. UPDATE
Lars Pryds in Denmark left me a message on Facebook that his paper “24Timer” published a page of some of these images today.
That’s a great photo collection.