A cool Nemo photo

Battling Winter Storm Nemo in Boston

It wasn’t even close to the level of John Filo photographing 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Veccio bent over Jeffrey Miller, who had been shot to death by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State, but 44-year-old Thomson-Reuters photographer Brian Snyder’s Boston picture of a pedestrian battling the frigid winds of Winter Storm Nemo with an umbrella made front pages of newspapers all over America.

Filo's Pulitzer photo of  Veccio

“At the start, the wind was ferocious and it wasn’t that cold yet, so the stuff falling was sharp and hurt” like needles, Snyder said. His photo captured that feeling.

Filo won a 1970 Pulitzer for his photo that had Americans aghast that their own government was killing their children. It helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.

Filo, Veccio in 2010

To read the entire Snyder-photo article, click on http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/203740/the-story-behind-the-storm-photo-featured-on-four-major-front-pages/