This is a picture from the New York Times of an Indian from Columbia who has been ousted from his home village, along with hundreds others. This is due to the fighting taking place in the frontier regions in order for rival rebel groups to obtain control of cocaine smuggling routes and growing/ processing centers.











In this picture we see:
Canoes
an Indian man
umbrella
a river
dense jungle
a sense that it might be raining
Black and white

Since my major is photojournalism I find pictures that appear in the news media as the most interesting to me. It is amazing how pictures can tell so much about a story through visual context. In the image above we get a very sad almost nightmarish feel of what is happening in the jungles of Columbia. To me this picture is the essence of photojournalism because it helps me imagine the plight of these peasants being uprooted from their homes, all for drugs and power. But also, this photo delivers this to us in a very artistic light. Conveying these ideas to us through use of contrast, lighting, and appropriate depth of field.