When photographers and photo editors talk, it might sound like a foreign language to an outsider. We often address the technical and artistic in the same sentence in trying to fine-tune a frame or concept.
In a recent conversation with staff photographer Jaime Puebla, I was mentioning how close a frame was to perfect except it was shot with a wide-angle lens, and thus I couldn’t get things to line up.
When the verticals were straight, the horizontals were creeping off; when the horizontals were on, the background was falling over. And in all that, the subject was lost behind these bold strokes.
Clearly taking that conversation to heart, he filed this photo, with countless 90-degree angles and well-timed positioning of the workers combining for a simple yet very dramatic image.
* Brian Kerrigan, photo editor