This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.
I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.
The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.
This ‘accidental gallery’ reveals glimpses from backstage and backs of cars as I traveled from the U.S. to Canada, Europe, and the Middle East several times on a 80 day trip training journalists and filming scenes for the “Breaking the News” documentary film.
My takeaway. You know you probably are a documentarian if you take pictures of everything and are willing to admit that sometimes the unplanned image can serve a story dimension better than a carefully-crafted one.
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