Jolt
Thursday Morning Jolt: The PI's Josh Trujillo
This morning's winner: PI.com photographer Joshua Trujillo.
News that 84-year-old community activist Dorli Rainey was pepper-sprayed by Seattle police at an Occupy Seattle protest this week has been making the national-news rounds over the past day, with every major outlet from the New York Times to Comedy Central's "Colbert Report " riffing on the story.
In all the coverage, though, one iconic image is ubiquitous: A photo taken by longtime PI.com photographer Joshua Trujillo, showing Rainey moments after she was hit, her face red, pained, and dripping with pepper spray.
Photo by Joshua Trujillo, PI.com
The Washington Post calls the photo a "haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety," and says that of all the images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments around the country, "none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey."
The Atlantic , meanwhile, predicts that the photo "may become the defining image of this week of Occupy unrest."
In an era when professional photographers have supposedly been displaced by amateurs wielding cell phones and $100 digital cameras, Trujillo's image is a reminder that experience and chops matter.
News that 84-year-old community activist Dorli Rainey was pepper-sprayed by Seattle police at an Occupy Seattle protest this week has been making the national-news rounds over the past day, with every major outlet from the New York Times to Comedy Central's "Colbert Report " riffing on the story.
In all the coverage, though, one iconic image is ubiquitous: A photo taken by longtime PI.com photographer Joshua Trujillo, showing Rainey moments after she was hit, her face red, pained, and dripping with pepper spray.
Photo by Joshua Trujillo, PI.com
The Washington Post calls the photo a "haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety," and says that of all the images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments around the country, "none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey."
The Atlantic , meanwhile, predicts that the photo "may become the defining image of this week of Occupy unrest."
In an era when professional photographers have supposedly been displaced by amateurs wielding cell phones and $100 digital cameras, Trujillo's image is a reminder that experience and chops matter.
