30 August 2021 | prestonhollowpeople.com
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PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES: ONE JOURNALIST’S FAVORITE PICS
WORDS AND IMAGES BY CHRIS MCGATHEY
Editor’s note: Chris McGathey has been shooting photographs for People Newspapers for 13 years, more than a quarter of the company’s history.
I was honored to photograph a former president in 2008 and pleased to sum up Bill Clinton’s visit to the Samuel Clemens Recreation Center in one shot. He was campaigning for his wife Hillary Clinton.
Sometimes it’s not a shot of a play that sums up a match. See how Mark Daus shows his jubilation in 2010 after Dallas Jesuit won its first soccer state title.
We have documented Dallas Jesuit graduate Jordan Spieth’s PGA career from the beginning, including his debut at the Byron Nelson.
I love how St. Mark’s students’ paper dragon casts a shadow during this 2009 Chinese New Year celebration.
A passerby walks under the historic marquee of the Texas Theater, which in 2008, observed the anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination with a special screening.
A man drives a motorized scooter past the Forest Lane Mural. You may have read about the efforts to preserve it in the May issue.
We assigned two photographers for the dedication in April 2013 of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, where four presidents visited the SMU campus. I shot the nearby protest where 200 people gathered.
Readers want to see their children’s faces. But sometimes focusing on a detail can add to the story as in this May 2012 photo taken during a St. Baldrick’s Day cancer research fundraiser at Trinity Hall. Look at Rachel Thienprayoon’s eyes peering over to friends and family. That was natural, not posed.
Back when People Newspapers had an Oak Cliff edition, I photographed singer and songwriter Flora May Holliday as she posed outside her home for an album cover.
