woensdag, mei 04, 2005
Sportfotografie kan ook gevaarlijk zijn
Photojournalists have been hit by errant baseballs, knocked down by basketball or football players and struck by hockey pucks that have squeezed through lens-sized slits in the rink boards. They have been trampled by celebrating fans, and they have been run over by network television camera carts on increasingly crowded stadium sidelines.
For the most part, though, they accept injury as an occupational hazard.
It's been more than five years since Sports Illustrated photographer Johnny Iacono was hit in the face by an overthrown baseball while shooting the 1999 World Series from the first-base photographer's well at Shea Stadium. Doctors installed 20 screws, two plates and wire mesh to repair his shattered jaw, but he still lost most of the teeth on one side of his mouth.
"I'm still a little gun-shy," he said. "The very first time I went back to work after the accident, Jose Canseco hit a line drive that missed my head by five inches. That's when I said, 'Forget it. This is my job.' I've got to wipe it out of my head. People said I should sue. What for? They'd take away our positions. Sorry. It's our job."
(PS Twee maanden geleden liep een cameraman in Houston een gebroken nek op toen een basketbalspeler op volle snelheid buiten het veld raakte.)
Bron: The Houston Chronicle.
For the most part, though, they accept injury as an occupational hazard.
It's been more than five years since Sports Illustrated photographer Johnny Iacono was hit in the face by an overthrown baseball while shooting the 1999 World Series from the first-base photographer's well at Shea Stadium. Doctors installed 20 screws, two plates and wire mesh to repair his shattered jaw, but he still lost most of the teeth on one side of his mouth.
"I'm still a little gun-shy," he said. "The very first time I went back to work after the accident, Jose Canseco hit a line drive that missed my head by five inches. That's when I said, 'Forget it. This is my job.' I've got to wipe it out of my head. People said I should sue. What for? They'd take away our positions. Sorry. It's our job."
(PS Twee maanden geleden liep een cameraman in Houston een gebroken nek op toen een basketbalspeler op volle snelheid buiten het veld raakte.)
Bron: The Houston Chronicle.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 22:22
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