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MAY | JUNE 2020 Our first world war This issue is a tribute to those working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic Photograph © Peter Turnley | OPENERS Books for the holidays 52 Stephen Wolgast CONTENTS | MAY / JUNE 2020 Void of cars Editor's Column Photo Essay/Journal ON THE COVER Sue Morrow 5 Jessica Christian 60 Photograph by Empty streets became commonplace © Peter Turnley due to shelter-in-place orders. Perspective: Born from Quarantined A bus driver at 81st and war, and back at war Julia Rendleman 66 Columbus in New York March 17, 2020: The San Donald R. Winslow 6 City on April 4, 2020. Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, left, The Image Deconstructed is eerily devoid of cars after midnight Executive Director & Ross Taylor 72 Behind the cover as San Francisco shut down. Six President’s Column photograph 7 Bay Area counties issued a shelter- Akili Ramsess, Andrew Stanfill 15 COVID-19 in rural America in-place order for residents to try to Sue Morrow 78 curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Advocacy Mickey Osterreicher & Columnists By Carlos Avila Gonzalez Alicia Calzada 18 Career/Life Balance: Autumn Payne 8 San Francisco Chronicle Doing It Well: Matt Pearl 55 29.97 FPS It's a Process: Eric Maierson 56 March 22, 2020: Above, very few Stewart Pittman 47 Openers/Enders cars and pedestrians are on Elm Pages 2, 3, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, Street in downtown Dallas ahead of Quotes from the pandemic 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 74, 86, 88, 90, Stewart Pittman 48 Judge Clay Jenkins’ shelter-in-place 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, order. 110, 112 Spotlight: Small-market By Tom Fox Jessica Phelps 52 The Dallas Morning News 2 May - June 2020 News Photographer May - June 2020 News Photographer 3 SUE MORROW | EDITOR NPPA Membership nppa.org/join FOUNDED IN 1946 News Photographer Official publication of the is a registered trademark NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION, INC. best laid-plans (singular best-laid plan) (idiomatic) PRESIDENT Andrew Stanfill of the National Press Published continuously since 1946, A proverbial expression used to signify the futility of making Photo Editor, Gainesville, FL Photographers Association previously as National Press Photographer detailed plans when the ability to fully or even partially [email protected] @madshrew on Twitter execute them is uncertain. EDITOR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR VICE PRESIDENT Katie Schoolov Sue Morrow Producer, CNBC, San Francisco [email protected] @suelmorrow on Twitter [email protected] @KatieSchoolov on Twitter Someone once said: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SECRETARY Marie D. De Jesús Akili-Casundria Ramsess Photojournalist, Houston Chronicle [email protected] @NPPAExec on Twitter The best-laid plans always go sideways [email protected] @MarieDennise on Twitter EMERITUS EDITORS TREASURER Kyle Grantham NCCTV in New Castle, DE Tom Burton, 2016-2018 [email protected] @kylegrantham on Twitter Donald R. Winslow, 2003-2016 Jim Gordon, 1978-2003 PAST PRESIDENT Michael P. King Bill Kuykendall, 1977 University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI Marjorie Morris, 1974-1976 [email protected] @UWmpking on Twitter Tom Keane, 1971-1974 Cal Olson, 1967-1971 REGIONAL CHAIRS REPRESENTATIVE Andy Colwell Joe Costa, 1946-1967 Independent Journalist [email protected] [email protected] Chris Lenney Yoshi James Santiago Mejia Daniel Kim Stefan T. Jeremiah Monica Herndon SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS National Press Photographers Association Brett Akagi | Marcia Allert | Josh Davis 120 Hooper Street In early March I was halfway on the heels of World War II and now once we get through this exceptionally Alanna Delfino | Eve Edelheit | Patrick Fallon The NPPA is an active advocate Athens, GA 30602 through designing and editing the Best of we’re in a very different kind of world war challenging time. The board of directors Eric Seals | Catherine Steward | Ross Taylor for the legal rights of visual 919.237.1782 Photojournalism issue when the pandemic (page 6). Peter Turnley's words echo that wants the same. You will get the (down- STUDENT DELEGATE journalists. Our work focuses on [email protected] WWW.NPPA.ORG made a serious turn for the worst. BOP sentiment (page 7). loadable) magazine online in an interac- Bridget Fetsko First Amendment access, drone judging had just ended, NPPA’s Northern Autumn’s column arrived on a day that tive PDF format at nppa.org/news-pho- RIT, Rochester, NY regulations, copyright, creden- News Photographer (ISSN 0199-2422), May/June 2020, Short Course was over, the News Video wasn’t going well. Six sentences in and tographer-magazine-content. It will look [email protected] tialing, cameras in court, “ag- Volume 75, Number 3. Six issues per year published by National Workshop, Immersion and the Advance my emotional response was unexpect- like the magazine you hold in your hands NPPA REGIONAL CHAIRS gag” laws, unlawful assault on Press Photographers Association Inc., 120 Hooper St, Athens, Storytelling Workshop were gearing up to ed. Her words jolted me out of feeling with hyperlinks to additional content, NEW ENGLAND visual journalists and cases that GA 30602. One year Subscription price: US $48; Canada $60; welcome participants. And boom. Much of like I was working in a silo, and an idea which will be a plus. (The March/April Caroline E. Couig, Independent Picture Editor/Consultant affect the ability to record events elsewhere $65. Periodical postage paid at Durham, NC the revenue we depend upon to keep this was formed. I turned to social media issue and this issue are posted as PDFs.) [email protected] [email protected] and issues of public interest. and additional mailing offices. venerable organization running came to a and asked for pictures of photographers But I’m not going to sugar-coat how this NEW YORK & INTERNATIONAL Our work also benefits the public screeching halt. And so did the BOP issue. working while covering the coronavirus. makes me feel to be the editor who might POSTMASTER Brent Lewis, Photo Editor, The New York Times at large. Those best-laid plans? Out the window. Moments after the call went out, pictures be giving you the last printed edition of [email protected] Postmaster please forward 3579 forms to But photojournalists tend to be innate rolled into my email. Masked and gowned this magazine. I am seriously bummed. For more information: NPPA Inc, 120 Hooper St., Athens, GA 30602. MID-ATLANTIC problem solvers. We’re resilient creatures photographers with eyes peering at me. You The printers, Johnson Press of America, nppa.org/advocacy William Thomas Cain, Photojournalist RIGHTS STATEMENT News Photographer is a registered trademark and bounce back. We’re all in this togeth- could tell some were smiling underneath Inc., in Pontiac, Illinois, are bummed. [email protected] @cainimages on Instagram of the National Press Photographers Association, Inc. NPPA er and yet so very far apart. their masks. You could also see stress. And I suspect members are bummed. and News Photographer magazine believe that photographers In the first of three emergency Zoom This issue is for you, the visual story- This magazine is unique for our industry. SOUTHEAST and writers should retain the rights and the benefits of owning Zak Bennett, Independent Journalist their rights to their own images and articles. One of the primary meetings of the board of directors, it was ob- tellers who are out there facing personal Its sustainability depends on our events/ [email protected] goals of NPPA and News Photographer magazine is the educa- vious to me what I needed to do. The May/ risks because it’s what we do. Call us crazy, functions and our members. The NPPA Student, professional and retiree tion of photojournalists and the public about photojournalism June issue of News Photographer – this but being a journalist – moreover, being needs you now more than ever. MIDWEST memberships are available in by reaching as wide an audience as possible. NPPA and News Sam Owens, Photographer, Evansville Courier & Press Photographer assume no ownership or copyrights to the imag- issue – had to be a tribute to those working a photojournalist – means we run toward Thank you to everyone who gracious- addition to numerous benefits. [email protected] es or articles submitted by freelancers and published. Rights on the front lines. I had to scramble. the danger because we have to be there in ly sent me work. The editing process For more information: requested are one-time, non-exclusive print rights for one issue CENTRAL of the magazine and archival electronic rights for the Internet Despite their own challenges, the reg- the moment. It’s in our DNA and that’s the evolved as news happened daily. Not all Steffani Nolte, Chief Photographer, KMTV nppa.org/join and searchable data bases in the context of the original article for ular contributors to the magazine were one thing that will never change. of what I received could be represented in [email protected] which they were submitted. all in. Ross Taylor, Autumn Payne, Julie The new plan print, but look for a video on nppa.org in SOUTH NPPA MONTHLY NEWS CLIP CONTEST It is is understood that any copy- Elman, Eric Maierson teach college class- the near future that will honor all those Julia Robinson, Independent Journalist right of an entry remains the property of the photographer or employer of the photographer. However, all participants agree es, so they were also adapting to remote The first issue of NP was published who sent me work. [email protected] that by entering the contest, they give permission to NPPA for its classes. Matt Pearl was on paternity leave in 1946, and sadly, this will be the last The pandemic is our story and our The NPPF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit WEST regional and national publications to reproduce winning entries, and wanted to write about his perspective one printed until it is financially feasible world war that affects everyone on this organization and is also the either through hard copy or electronically, including and not Christian Monterrosa, Independent Journalist (page 43).