Haunting Images From Hub Photographer

Boston Herald Photographer John Wilcox happened to be photographing in and around the Boston Public Garden yesterday afternoon when he came across an unforgetable and unbelievable scene that sounds more like a story out of a movie than real life. Three men sitting in a public park with children and families walking by shooting up. Disgusting, nauseating images of a man's death. Read his story here and see the pictures here. It's this kind of story that makes me think about the power of photography as well as the precarious position we are all in when we chose to photograph the public. I am often reticent to take pictures of people without talking to them first and in the case here, this photographer caught something horrible with his equipment. It's the kind of thing we all dream about from a artistic standpoint but also the kind of thing we all dread from a personal point of view.