Amorous Protesters
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 9:12AM 
Photo Credit: Rich Lam (Getty Images)
This photo went viral a few months back, after the Vancouver Canucks’ loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, and I thought that I had blogged about it at the time. I'm working on a Power Point for a Photo-Journalism lecture and was scrolling through the blog looking for it - only to discover I never posted it.... better late than never.
This photo is a great example of the way in which point of view can make or break a photograph. The two combined pull back the curtain on the way photographs can lie and tell the truth simultaneously. The photo by Rich Lam (Getty Images) immediately went viral. The guy in the photo was dubbed the "Riot Romeo." Some thought it was photoshopped, but it is actually just a great photo. I love this quote:
Illuminated in a glow, they looked like they belonged on a movie poster (their embrace even drew a comparison to the iconic image of lovers on a beach from the film classic “From Here to Eternity”).
A bit of investigative journalism revealed that instead of the two lovers passionately kissing as a riot raged all around them, Scott Jones was comforting his girlfriend, Alex Thomas, after riot police knocked her to the ground. Getty responded the next day by releasing the sequence of images shot by Rich Lam.
Photo Credit: Unknown - A different perspective on the scene