Wow, what a day that was!
For those of you who still don't
know, I've just had the most intense 24 hours of my (recent) life! I
arrived in Minneapolis barely two days ago, and was suddenly sucked in
a whirlpool of tragic events in which I ended up being involved closely
through the lens of my camera.
I am giving for granted that you
all are aware of what happened in Minneapolis yesterday (Wednesday,
August 1) at about 6pm local time...A bridge that carried a busy,
eight-lane highway collapsed into the Mississippi River, bringing down
with it several cars, trucks and also a schoolbus.
At
the time, I was lucky enough - journalistically speaking - to be
sitting on the 'al fresco' terrace of a nearby bar, sipping a
happy-hour bottle of Stella, when the tragedy happened.
From my entry on NEED Magazine's blog:
I
immediately got onto my bike, and rode to a nearby bridge where I saw
the scene as it appeared just a few minutes after the shocking event.
But | felt I wasn't close enough, so, doing my best to find my way in a
city that is completely new to me, I finally got to a better vantage
point, the bridge on 10th Avenue, right next to the fallen one.
The
area was already cordoned off by Police and swarming with onlookers,
but I managed to negotiate a good spot from which I started shooting as
many pictures as I could, and also a few videos.
The adrenaline
was high and kept me going - until late into the night as a matter of
fact - but every now and then I found myself resting my finger to stare
in awe at the scene that was unfolding right in front of my eyes.
Full text available on http://needmagazine.blogsp
ot.com/
That was that, my personal adrenaline-filled, journalistic-driven approach to unexpected, dramatic events.
What
happened today, or better, what kept happening today has been, in a
way, more interesting, and certainly more unexpected, thanks to the
pictures and the videos I shot. After a couple of hours, the Police
finally kicked even members of the press out of their way, so I rushed
back to NEED's HQ, where I knew I would be able to access the Web, and
started uploading all my material.
It turned out to have a huge public response, and impressive media interest. New York-based photo agency WorldPictureNews
has offered to syndicate my images globally, and thanks to the videos
I've posted on Youtube, I have been interviewed by CNN and NBC, and some of my footage is being broadcast by them.
Result: over 114,000 people checked my photos on Flickr, and a total of 125,000 watched my three videos on Youtube. This in less than 24 hours.
So, I consider this as a good start of my internship. Don't you?
Stay Tuned.
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