Post title from Jezebel. Love it! I took this photo on Monday when snapping the Yellow Fever vaccination campaign. A lot of the shots I got from the day are pretty typical and expected, but this girl’s expression helps set the image apart from the others. The uniforms also really set the scene. They’re standard fare here, but look almost smarmy to outside viewers.
This is the largest ever round of yellow fever vaccinations, for about 12 million people, was launched today in Liberia, Benin and Sierra Leone. Three million Liberians will be vacinated in the next ten days during a massive public health campaign sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and others. About 30,000 people die every year from the viral disease, which is carried by mosquitoes. Its most virulent form can kill more than 50 percent of those infected.
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Great shot, Scarlett. Fucking great shot.
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But how do you do this stuff?
I understand that you may not be able to explain how, because perhaps it is a sub-conscious genius, but still. I’m not a photographer, personally – just a lowly geek – and I may never even need to fish, as it were. Just that you do catch some amazing fish with a consistency that implies that there is a formula of sorts.
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The how is much more simple than you might think, and it does involve a formula: take thousands of pictures a year, show a few dozen on my blog. That’s it, really.
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Great shot (sorry for the pun). It puts swine flu in perspective. 30,000 people dying every year for how many years, and swine flu panic still dominates the newspapers. Sigh.
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