So this is John H. White, a legend in photojournalism. He was one of the featured speakers here at the Northern Short Course in Photojournalism. Here is the kind of guy he is - before his talk started, he stepped down off the stage, and came to the front row, and walked up to strangers, and began introducing himself! How wonderful is that. He has worked for the Chicago Sun Times for 35 years, until they fired their entire photo staff in 2013. John won the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism in 1982 for his "consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects." His talk was inspirational, and his photographs just stunning. He is a very spiritual person, and that showed when he talked about his love of people and of photographing them. And of course, he had time to pose for pictures with some of the younger photographers.
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