Shiva Kumar Thekkepat of Gulfnews.com has posted an insightful Lens Talk article about photojournalist Joe McNally. Here is a brief excerpt.… Over the course of his three-decade career versatile photojournalist Joe McNally has shot assignments for various media organisations and won several awards. But the images closest to his heart are Faces of Ground Zero.
There is no doubt that Joe McNally loves what he does. He worked his way up from being a copy boy at the New York Daily News to becoming a staff photographer at Life magazine and a regular contributor to National Geographic. His work is marked not only by an uncanny ability to capture forever those once-in-a-lifetime moments but also by a willingness to take chances and find solutions where none seem obvious. While on assignment for National Geographic covering US Senator John Glenn's space shuttle training, for example, McNally (an experienced diver) insisted on being dive-certified by Nasa so that he could shoot underwater images in their massive training pool. He also had 30,000 watt seconds of strobe and a professional motion-picture lighting crew brought in to light the shoot…
Read the entire Joe McNally article on gulfnews.com.
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