Photojournalist Randee Daddona shows off her Emmy on Monday. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
The work of photojournalist Randee Daddona first landed on the cover of a New York City tabloid at the tender age of 13.
Then a student at Mark Twain Junior High School for the Gifted and Talented in Coney Island, Ms. Daddona (née Post) and her classmates were on a field trip in Brooklyn when they stumbled upon some breaking news: An unlicensed driver had just backed into a mounted police officer, pinning him and his horse between her bumper and a parked taxi. The troupe of aspiring photographers saw an opportunity in calamity. (more…)