New York Subway Death Photo: Local Photographer Reacts
Tom Dunn gives his thoughts following the controversial photo of a man hanging from a subway platform moments before he was killed by an oncoming train.
A photo of a man just before he was killed by a subway train in New York City has sparked discussion across the country over what the photographer could have done to help him. The photographer has defended himself since Monday’s incident, and police have arrested a man authorities believe pushed the victim in the path of the oncoming train. Tom Dunn—a photographer who takes pictures for the Woodbury Chamber of Commerce, Woodbury Community Foundation and Woodbury Days, among others—was asked to weigh in on the matter. “It’s hard to judge the photographer when you’re not there,” Dunn said. “But morally, you help the guy if you could.” Without seeing all the images taken by R. Umar Abbasi—a freelance photographer for the New York Post—Dunn …
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Cynthia Cincoski
4:26 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
From the reports that I have heard it sounds like there were quite a number of people around, at the very time it all happened, who did nothing to help the poor man. Fear of being pulled down by the man onto the tracks while trying to pull him up was one possible excuse, but this was a small man who several people could have quickly worked together to save. Instead I heard that a lot of the … more ›