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Center Court – A 30 year wait
Wednesday finally saw the culmination of a 30 year dream of mine to shoot a match on the famed center court at Wimbledon. After 30 years of being a photographer, 25 of those spent with Reuters...
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Remembering Shaun Best
The following is a note to staff from News Editor, Pictures America, Gary Hershorn following the tragic death of Montreal based Reuters photographer Shaun Best. “By now you have all woken up Monday...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis – A 30 year wait
For the second year in a row, I find myself writing about covering an event after a 30 year wait. A year ago I wrote about photographing a match at center court at the Wimbledon tennis championships,...
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When the floods come to your hometown
Hoboken, New Jersey By Gary Hershorn For thirty-four years I have been a photojournalist covering events the world over, but never have I had to live within a news event in my hometown. Too many times...
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The Arafat-Rabin handshake 20 years on
By Gary Hershorn There I was on Saturday, September 11, 1993 waiting for the U.S. Open women’s tennis final to start in New York when I received a call from my manager at the time, Larry Rubenstein,...
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Summer in NYC
New York City, New York By Gary Hershorn I think it can be said, all of us can look back at ourselves and recall specific moments that shaped the direction our lives went in. For me I can remember two...
View ArticleAthletics-Reuters photographer won Johnson’s trust before Seoul
NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Standing shirtless on the training track, Ben Johnson looked at me, then dropped his running shorts. He stared at me, apparently willing me to take a picture and prove I...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Standing shirtless on the training track, Ben Johnson looked at me, then dropped his running shorts. He stared at me, apparently willing me to take a picture and prove I was just...
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Gaining Ben Johnson’s trust
(Editor’s note: Gary Hershorn, now Global Editor, Sports Pictures, for Reuters, has covered sport for 35 years. A Canadian, he gained the trust of compatriot Ben Johnson in the run-up to the 1988 Seoul...
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