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Sports Illustrated, April 22, BOSTON
Photographer: John Tlumacki
"At approximately 3:10 on the afternoon of April 15, 2013, the editors of Sports Illustrated returned from their Monday meeting to rumors of a terrorist act near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. With fewer than four hours until Si's weekly deadline, producing a definitive news account of what happened was impossible. Was there, however, an image that captured the afternoon's chaos, its tragedy, in addition to a city's capacity for resilience and goodness in the face of such terror? Yes, there was, dozens of images, in fact. By 4:30 p.m., half an hour ahead of the magazine's usual cover deadline.
"At approximately 3:10 on the afternoon of April 15, 2013, the editors of Sports Illustrated returned from their Monday meeting to rumors of a terrorist act near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. With fewer than four hours until Si's weekly deadline, producing a definitive news account of what happened was impossible. Was there, however, an image that captured the afternoon's chaos, its tragedy, in addition to a city's capacity for resilience and goodness in the face of such terror? Yes, there was, dozens of images, in fact. By 4:30 p.m., half an hour ahead of the magazine's usual cover deadline.
This is a really interesting and creative cover about the Boston Marathon. The way they used police men running to try and find any hurt people like the man on the ground. This cover always shows balance, one of the composition rules. This magazine cover is not a formal portrait or an informal portrait. I would say that it is an environmental portrait, just because the police men are in their normal environment when it comes to disasters or terrorist attacks. I can see why this one won though, because this cover about the Boston Marathon is very touching and emotional, which is an important factor when making covers.
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