Meeting Photojournalist John H. White

While on a shoot in Chicago’s Federal Plaza for the Council for a Parliament of World Religions, producer Kathy Dale McNair introduced me to Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist John H. White. Mr. White is a legend in Chicago journalism circles a true gentleman an a wonderful artist. I mentioned that I had first seen John work while covering the press conference announcing the death of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington at Northerwestern Memorial Hospital in November, 1987. John told me that he had been at City Hall when the mayor collapsed, and rode to the hospital in the back of an ambulance along with the dying mayor. Mayor Washington was not only a subject for John’s lens, he was a personal friend.