Why has Boston.com become such a great photographers heaven?

[Locut0s]

Time and again they put together some of the best collections of current event photography I've yet seen. Before this I'd only known of the Boston Globe as just yet another newspaper I knew little about. They seem to want to be the new National Geographic of journalism photography. Is this something new for them or does the paper have a long history of stellar photography?

 

[fustercluck]

Yeah I don't know why either. Pics are amazing. Some other site i can't think of that has been really good too (scabee or something).

 

[preCRT]

They've won awards for years & have made awesome use of the internet to spotlight the power of photos.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/photos/

 

[pyonir]

They've won awards for years & have made awesome use of the internet to spotlight the power of photos.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/photos/

Which will bring in very good or the best editorial photographers because what photographer wouldn't want to work for a company that takes pride in their photographs and spotlights them. It's a win/win for the Globe and I'm glad they do it because I love the photos.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i wish i had photography skillz.

 

[MotF Bane]

I check named photo threads to see the source, i.e. the Haiti thread. Boston.com always gets a click.

 

[grrl]

I don't know either, but their photo essays are usually amazing.

 

[RapidSnail]

I don't think they are all Boston photographers, but a collection of photographs from various sources and news agencies. However, their collections are nothing short of amazing.

 

[Rufus12]

I was in Boston awhile ago, and I managed to snap this pic of a Boston Globe Photographer.

 

[ultravox]

Another very good site is http://englishrussia.com/ Not only current stuff but many older pics.
A series of photos about Leningrad during the siege by the German Army in WW II is very good

 

[Gooberlx2]

Aren't a lot of the pics sent in to companies like Boston Globe and Nat Geo from freelancers? So they get the opportunity to just pick and choose the best, most compelling pictures of the bunch.

I mean, you can only have so many staff photogs on payroll, and there are a lot of stories to cover around the world (though I don't doubt at least a couple/few staff photogs would be dispatched to such an immense story as Haiti).

edit: If you looks at the credits, a lot of the images come from newswire services like AP and Reuters, as well. Certainly Boston has some staff and/or contracts a photog that uses a newswire service for assignments. But what seems to set them apart is they must have some competent editors (or whatever) who know how to pick photos for a combination of story telling and technical mastery.