Exhibit A. BY NATE SWANSON
Nate Swanson is a photo journalist at Ohio University who placed second in the Photo Journalism Features and News Competition of the 2020 - 2021 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. He currently works as the photo editor for The Post. Many of the photos I took captured pivotal moments of 2020 both in Athens and in Chicago, where I’m from and where I learned to use a camera as a teenager starting out in high school. Much of what I submitted for Hearst was from assignments I took while working as photo editor with The Post, while others were taken when I was home in Chicago.
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An enormous crowd of Ohio University students follow and protest far-right gun rights advocate Kaitlin Bennett as she enters Baker University Center on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Bennett has gained popularity and infamy for her work as an Infowars contributor and as a member of libertarian media outlet Liberty Hangout.
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