When One Gets Away

If you don’t follow my “Flickr a Day” series, you really miss out. The 133rd, “Jenna Bean“, is the most recently curated photo. There will be 365 pics picked this year, with no photographers repeated (unless by carelessness), Storytelling motivated me to begin the project on January 1.

But there are many images or shooters I want to feature but don’t. Okay, can’t. Two common problems: Resolution of the photos are too low or they are licensed All Rights Reserved. The project only features Creative Commons-available content. 

The collage with this post is from the Flickr of photojournalist Luc Forsyth, and his best work falls into the former category. Additionally, his better and more current photography appears on Instagram. In conceiving this series, I should have had the foresight to include more than Flickr, which would give greater voice to shooters like Luc. I hemmed myself in.

But so impressed with the spirit of his efforts, I had to write something. So here we are.

The Canadian-native, currently living in Cambodia, “specializes in social and humanitarian issues in developing countries”, and “through a combination of still images and the written word he brings international attention to stories that are often underreported by the mainstream media”.

As a journalist frustrated by American ethnocentricity and the amount of crap published to fester pageviews. Luc’s work appeals to me. If you can spare the time, his website is a delightful storybook.

Photo Collage Credit: Luc Forsyth