I'm not sure what it is but the middle photo by Maggie Steber of a Lakota boy gaining the trust of an abused horse really gets me.

It is part of a rehabilitation program that pairs a young Sioux in a drug rehab program with a horse that has suffered abuse.

Strategy 4: Substance Abuse Treatment and Relapse Prevention

In an effort to implement a horse program to provide basic riding skills and horse care to youth, the Adopt-A-Horse Program was created. The program was also designed to complement the Wolakota Yukini Wicoti project and to adopt 5 horses to youth. The activities completed were roping schools, riding lessons, Exceptional Education Riding Program, horse health care and grooming seminars, care and maintenance of riding tack, horse facility management, confirmation classes, adoption policies, horse showmanship classes, livestock judging, rodeo judging, leisure riding, horse training seminars, stable maintenance, trail riding, fencing, and an instructional video on horse trailing. The program also included participation in the Headstart Parade, Viet Nam Veterans Parade, Tribal Labor Day Fair Parade and Play Day.

Maggie Steber has shot for National Geographic among many other publications. Here's a good CBC story on her, concentrating on her photojournalism in Haiti. She has a small portfolio site on her Haiti work: Haitiforever.com.

I think one of the great abilities of the best photojournalists is the ability to look into the soul of a person or a moment and capture it as an image.

I found this first on The Digital Journalist >>