The night shift is a time when many of the most emotional and violent conflicts between residents of a city are displayed before the calm, objective lens of a camera’s eye. Having worked this time period for a large metropolitan daily newspaper, I’ve seen the results from tragic killings, devastating car crashes, and the aftermath of murders. As a 24-year-old photojournalist without much experience in the world up to that time, I’ve witnessed and photographed the mangled sight of a young man’s body laying on the ground after his life was cut short by a shotgun blast from a grocery store manager during a robbery attempt, the body of a man face down in the shallow water of a bayou next to his overturned sedan, and the lurid ...
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