Although I learned so much there is one thing that stuck out to me that I repeatedly saw throughout the course of the semester. The passion that people show and having while throwing themselves completely in their work. What is a researcher to you? Is it a journalist? A New reporter? A student who has a four-page paper due on a topic that they never heard of before? What about a man who travels across the world to go to a site in which a photo was taken?
Both Errol Morris is a man who came across Roger Fenton's, a war photographer, Valley of the Shadow of Death photographs taken during the Crimean War. The two photographs were of a road littered with cannon balls in one, and a clear road in the other. A simple pair of photographs in themselves but there was some controversy. Many people believed the photos were posed and which photo was actually taken first was a problem in itself. Morris decided to exhaust every resource possible to find out the truth behind the photographs. He talked to historians, other researchers, every traveled to the Valley of the Shadow of Death with a cannon ball from the Crimean War and tried to make sense of it all. The passion he showed for finding the truth was inspiring.
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