Fred Lum, Melissa Tait and Goran Tomasevic look back at their most memorable photos of the year, and what it took to get them
A slowish news day had me out looking for standalone photographs – sometimes called wild art – which run in the paper on their own, without a story. After a recent snowfall, there was a chance the toboggan hill at Riverdale Park East in Toronto would be a promising place to try to find a shot. That the light was good as well didn’t hurt. There’s not much parking near the hill so I had to park elsewhere and make the 800-metre hike to the bottom.
photographs that told the story. In the wide panoramic photo, I was trying to convey the mood on the night a runaway train hurtled down the track, eventually exploding in a huge ball of fire and taking numerous lives with it. This photograph had to include all the elements relevant to the moment: the tracks, the crossing lights and the eerie darkness that hid an impending disaster.came about almost by chance after the reporter met with some locals and heard Mr.
I met Norm Retasket, a survivor of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, with columnist Tanya Talaga in May, 2021. He was deeply affected by the announcement of the unmarked graves and the new memories that surfaced. I stayed in touch with Mr. Retasket through the year, and, as the country grappled with the legacy of the residential school system, he seemed to find a new sense of healing in openlyThis spring, Mr.
and so I was able to spend time with him. If you want a good picture you need to spend time and then find the good moments.and spent 11 days in the capital, trying to understand how it was different under Taliban rule. In some ways, it was unchanged – residents were friendly and welcoming at the Mandawi Bazaar. In other ways, life was noticeably different – Taliban were everywhere. On this day, tensions were high because it was the Eid al-Adha holiday and people were fearful of an ISIS attack.
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