Bill Eppridge

The career and the art of photojournalism requires much more than simply the ability to take a high quality photograph. It demands determination, drive, and the ability to view things from alternate angles. Bill Eppridge explained the importance of those characteristics in a photojournalist while showing through his own work. He did a piece while working with Life magazine about a white, middle class, couple struggling with heroine. He had to essentially live with them for three weeks. Nothing about that job could be easy, Eppridge was there through the couple's toughest times, even for and arrest and jail time.

Bill Eppridge has really captured some incredible things in his career and created some very influential pieces. I found it very interesting to hear about his experience with Bobby Kennedy and other important or famous people and how different his experience would be if he were following the same people now. Things were different then, and he was able to just hang around with Bobby Kennedy and photograph him the night he was shot. Although a life in photojournalism would be extremely demanding, it would be incredibly rewarding and would bring so many extraordinary experiences.