Epilogue

Lara Hartley

A blank page. Rather like the beginning of each day. Now what?

My sojourn in Barstow began almost three years ago.

Six months in hell I had spent- at the Fort Dodge Messenger before coming
here. A miserable excuse for a newspaper in a lousy town.

Coming here was like the cliched breath of fresh air. The desert was
invigorating, the people nice and I felt as if I could stay forever. But my
feet have gotten itchy and it is time to maybe think of moving on.

Susan Markisz

I've been a silent partner in this collaboration for some time. Photography took some unexpected turns in the last year and I thought I knew where I was going. As usual, things weren't quite what I expected them to be so I thought I'd go back to the place where I regained my barting.

Mark Hertzberg

I was cautious and cynical about the initial invitation to join BTV. I didn't know who was involved, I worried the time commitment that it would entail, and I had not idea what I'd write about. It was, frankly, like trying to decide how to respond to a cyber-version of a telemarketer. However, my first journal almost wrote itself on January 19, 1998), and I was off and running on a two and a half year adventure. I've taken you through almost every corner of my job and through parts of my life off the job.

Tom Burton

Climbing the career ladder in photojournalism is different than other professions. In most careers, the longer you work the more likely it will be that you get a bigger office, more money and personal assistants. For a news photographer, a fancy desk is the last thing we think about.

Joe Jaszewski

The last two months has solidified my faith in my choice. Damn that feels good. After Ohio University my faith in my own choices was a bit shaken. A series of events has restored some faith in myself that I had lost.

This continues to be a work in progress.

As part of this project, we documented other feelings, reactions, and commentary from photojournalists, on video and in photographs. In the coming months, we will publish the balance of the video interviews and a unique radio interview of the many of the contributors to the Behind the Viewfinder project.

Stay tuned.

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