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Originally Posted by rogueteens
DWB said earlier in this thread that "Photojournalists take photos. Heroes help people." sorry but that is bullshit, Being a hero is NOT a job it is a state of mind and it seems that many news photographers just don't have it.
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No one plans on being a hero, regular people just act and do what they think needs to be done. It's not a job, it's just what some people naturally do during a situation. Some panic, some instantly do what needs to be done. And you never know which one of those people you or someone around you will be until it happens.
Photographers take photos. That's what they are there for. Some of them help people along the way. But to say some of these guys don't "have it" because they are simply documenting an event, you're fooling yourself. Some of these stringers have balls of fucking steel waltzing into wars, disasters, conflicts, armed with nothing more than a camera, while 99% of the people around are running the other way, they run into the conflict, towards the bombs, and into the gun fire. They are heroes of another kind, and the world needs them to tell the story of what happened.