Imagine you are hurtling down a freeway at 70 miles an hour. You are talking on your cell phone, eating a bagel, and struggling to keep your eyes open (as you only fell into 2 hours of sleep the night before). Your eyes seem to close tighter and tighter, and you barely notice that you are passing a semi at breakneck speed. All of a sudden you are roused from sleep in an instant to hear a shrill, panicked honk, and then everything goes black. Your car has just become wedged underneath the tractor trailer. While you cannot see what has happened, others can go to http://www.onscenephotos.com/ and see similar medical emergencies in graphic footage. As somebody who is captivated by breaking news, and the shocking photos that accompany it, I find this site to be truly provocative. This resource is divided into three subcategories of emergency photographs, which are police, fire, and EMS. In all three subcategories, there appears to be a heavy dosage of accident coverage, with mangled cars dramatizing the webpages. I am especially drawn to one image, which gave birth to my introduction, of a shredded Honda Accord gutted by a big rig, which can be found at http://www.onscenephotos.com/onscene/store/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Car_Accidents_and_Extrications&image=6-120319-1-1.jpg&img=0&search=Firefighter&cat=all&tt=&bool=and&tfile=tn_6-120319-1-1.jpg&numtolist=30&sortfiles=1. This image alludes to the sobering aspect of this website, which is what happens when somebody acts recklessly, or even criminally. While viewer discretion is advised, given the explicit nature of many of the photographs, the photographer stops short of going full-fledge, as you don’t see dead bodies or close-ups of blood or gore. In addition, shots of flames and smoke jutting and billowing out of buildings and hostage negotiation are featured. According to the producers of the website, there are over 25,000 emergency photographs on the website, that come from all across the globe. This site is reliable because many of the photographers are said to have backgrounds in both emergency services and photography, which can be found in the “About us” section on the top bar. I appreciate that this site doesn’t seem to consist of amateurs, which the photographs show.
Poignant Photography
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