Fetus Sticks Hand out of Womb
Mentioned in The Famous Pictures magazine, this photo was taken on Aug. 19, 1999 at Vanderbilt hospital in Nashville Tennessee. The photo above is a shot of an unborn child reaching out of his mothers womb while having surgery. The photographer, Michael Clancy was there by chance and accidentally caught the picture as it was happening. Clancy is a native of Tennessee and a freelance photojournalist. USA Today hired Clancy when they decided to document this surgery on the 21 week old baby who was suffering from Spina Bifida. Not only were doctors scared that the surgery wouldn't go well, they were also convinced that the baby would show no movement at that particular stage. The fetus stuck it's hand out of the womb and by chance, Clancy got the shot. The child in the photo is Samuel Armas. Although they did not correct his disease entirely, he was born fairly normal and had to wear leg braces. This photograph appeared on USA Today, and in the Famous Pictures magazine. Also, Clancy has a personal website where additional information can be found. The news values I found most important are bizarre, as you can tell this is a very unusual photograph. Proximity because it happened very close to where we are located now and it is a disease that happens frequently and conflict, because the actual story behind the photograph has been debated for years.
Vulture Stalks Sudan Child
This photograph takes place in the country of Sudan. This shows a small Sudan child trying to get to a food camp when it collapsed. As you can see the vulture is preying on the young child and it's heartbreaking to see. This photograph was taken in March, 1993 by Kevin Carter. He was a photojournalist who traveled to South African countries to take photos of the less fortunate circumstances that were happening. The photographer took the picture instead of helping the child, as the photographers were told not to touch the children because of risk of getting diseases. With that being said, he left the child and kept taking pictures. The photo was sold to the New York Times on March 26, 1999. Many questions were asked about the state of the child and wanted to know if Carter had helped it. He couldn't give them the answer they wanted which caused controversy and depression for him. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and three weeks after committed suicide because he could not live with himself for not helping the little girl and not knowing what happened to her after he left. The most important news values are bizarre, because Carter didn't help the child which is inhumane. Proximity because it's someones child regardless and it makes you feel sympathy for them and conflict because it caused a lot of problems for Carter which led to his death.
Terribly Beautiful: Industrial Pollution
In this photograph, the photographer has captured a picture of a mountaintop removal site in West Virginia. This photograph was taken on April 20, 2011 by J Henry Fair. He is a freelance photographer who takes photos of natural and industrial disasters that are beautiful although harmful. It appeared in TIME magazine along with an article written by Neil Harris about Fair. Fair travels from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Fair relies on complementary charter flights from two volunteer-based environmental aviation organizations, Lighthawk and Southwings, to take his photographs. These small planes make it easier for Fair to take the photographs he needs without getting too close to the damaging chemicals. The news values that are most important are proximity because it is very close to home and mountaintop removal is something very serious to a lot of people. Also, bizarre because although mountaintop removal isn't unusual, the fact that something so beautiful came from a disaster is pretty crazy.
Body Lies Half Buried after Japan Tsunami
This is a photograph taken by Donald Weber in Fukushima Japan after the recent tsunami that left the country in devastation. Before Weber was a photographer, he was an architect. Now he works for VII for Newsweek. This body was found in the mud washed up from the tsunami and had been untouched. This was published on April 3, 2011. The most important news values are timeliness because it is such a recent occurrence, proximity because we as Americans are also dealing with devastation from the storms and it is kind of bizarre that no one has tried to move the body and it has just been laying there without anyone to claim it.
Tornadoes Touch Down in Kentucky
In this photograph it shows the destruction that the tornadoes left as they passed through Kentucky. The photograph appeared in the Lexington Herald Leader and was taken by Aaron Borton a freelance photojournalist from Louisville, Ky. This tornado touched down in Henry County and this was one of three houses that were destroyed. The date of the photo publication is March 1, 2011. The most important news values are proximity because it was on our soil, timeliness because it has just recently happened, and conflict because it has caused troubles throughout the state of Kentucky and across the United States.
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