{"id":588,"date":"2015-12-31T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=588"},"modified":"2016-01-01T18:38:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T23:38:06","slug":"best-of-2015-by-michael-henninger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2015\/12\/31\/best-of-2015-by-michael-henninger\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2015 by Michael Henninger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reflect on 2015 with awe and wonder, as I was fortunate enough to document both our hunk of this space-rock we so lovingly call Pittsburgh, and to take assignments in the Dominican Republic and Cuba that I won&#8217;t soon forget.  At the beginning of the year, I got to know three Haitian orphans that found permanent homes in Pittsburgh after the devastating earthquake.  Toward the end of the year, I was able to spend time with Jim Fogle, the Indiana County man who was exonerated after spending 34 years in prison for murder.  <\/p>\n<p>Documentary photography is a collaborative process.  It requires trust, faith, and understanding from the subjects as well as the photographer. For that, I want to thank the people in these stories. Even if by telling their tales they accomplished nothing else, they certainly changed me.  I can only hope 2016 will bring such meaningful experiences. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width:500px;height:350px;\" data-ps-embed-type=\"slideshow\" data-ps-embed-gid=\"G0000QU..CLIYeus\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/post-gazette.photoshelter.com\/js\/psEmbed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>_psEmbed(\"http:\/\/post-gazette.photoshelter.com\");<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reflect on 2015 with awe and wonder, as I was fortunate enough to document both our hunk of this space-rock we so lovingly call Pittsburgh, and to take assignments in the Dominican Republic and Cuba that I won&#8217;t soon forget. At the beginning of the year, I got to know three Haitian orphans that&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2015\/12\/31\/best-of-2015-by-michael-henninger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[19],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/12\/zzzfeatureimage.jpg?fit=1920%2C710&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}