Like I mentioned some days ago, covering Duke Women’ Soccer’s game vs. OSU on Friday was my first sports assignment for The Chronicle this term. Below you’ll see a cropped version of my first soccer photo published yesterday. A huge smile shined on my face when I recognized my picture on the online article about Duke’s loss.
I particularly like this picture because it reminds of a famous iconic photo: Andrés Iniesta is about to score the goal with which Spain won the World Cup in South Africa in 2010:
In my literary studies, I enjoy finding similarities and connections between written texts. It is fascinating to find an equivalent sort of intertextuality with photos, especially when one’s photo resembles -to some extent- iconic images seen by millions of people all over the world…