Beginnings: Blacks and Whites

For most of the 20th Century images in print where in black and white. It is a different way of looking at people and events for the grayscale distilled the image, stripping away the visual noise colors can bring. I worked for a time as a contract photographer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in their Athens, Georgia bureau, home of the University of Georgia. There was a lot of sports, news, features and life to cover there. I sent the images over phone lines in the mid 1980s using a UPI laser transmitter. Archaic by any standards today, it took nine minutes to send a photo over the line from transmitter to receiver. The images with captions were for the AJC; others were for other papers and clients. Some seem just as relevant today. I cut my shooting teeth working for the AJC and worked with the best staff. I’m eternally grateful for the experience.