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If you’re one of the few who visit this blog on a regular basis, you’ll probably have read about my January 1st assignment covering the evacuation of two buildings. If not you can read it here.Anyway a series of the photos were posted to the newspaper website on Wednesday morning (January 3rd). That same day around 8 PM I got a phone call from the photo editor of Berlingske Tidne which is among the biggest nationwide newspapers in the country.My first thought was “What the hell is she calling me for?” A job offer? Didn’t sound realistic to me at all. And I’ve never heard of a picture editor calling people at 8 pm to sell me a subscription to the paper. Quite amazing how much stuff went through my mind before she started her next sentence.Turns out she had visited the newspaper website and saw my photos from the evacuation. She was interested in buying one of the photos for their Sunday edition where they were doing a two page story on the whole deal in the newspaper section “The Magazine Sunday”. They were bringing a total of three photos for the story and wanted my photo for the story.15 minutes later I had mailed the photo to the photo editor.The photo they/she wanted, was of the old lady getting escorted/helped to a bus by a fireman. Here it is on print in the newspaper.evacuation-paper1.jpgThis photo was posted in Berlingske Tidne on Sunday January 7th, 2007.I believe my boss had intentions of brining that exact photo in our own paper but ended up using a different photo. He was really cool about the paper wanting to buy the photo and all and congratulated me for selling it to a major nationwide newspaper.He ended up choosing the photo of the same old lady getting escorted by the fireman but where they are shot from the front with a telephoto lens.evacuation-paper4.jpgThe paper I work for ran a center page double spread focus story on the evacuation including an interview with one of of the residence and other information regarding the buildings.A view of the two center pages with the story and photos.evacuation-paper2.jpgMy newspaper also ran another photo I shot but hadn’t posted on this site.evacuation-paper3.jpg

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2 Responses to “Evacuation photo sold to major newspaper”
Claus //
January 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

Congrats!! Nice work! Must bee very satisfying to sell a photo - just like that from the archive :-)

Battin //
January 14th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

great man! Congrats! :-)

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I'm a photojournalist working as a staff photographer at a local newspaper. These are my stories and experiences from my daily assignments.
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