Philip Jones Griffiths

I am always looking for photos that look like either a drawing or a painting.  I think this photo by Philip Jones Griffiths in the March 31, 2013 issue of the NY Times looks like an amazing graphite drawing.

I was sad to read that Philip Jones Griffiths passed away in 2008.  He took some amazing photographs during the  Vietnam War.

A London newspaper editor once told him to remember to answer the five basic questions in every photo caption — who, what, why, where and when. Mr. Griffiths said the first two and last two struck him as merely perfunctory. “It’s the one in the middle that counts,” he said. “To me that’s our task, to say ‘Why?'

I agree wholeheartedly.