>>3294471>nothing to do with composition and techniqueNope. The best photo journalists knew what they were doing and they knew how to work with chaotic environments to produce images that were probably as well composed and exposed as they could have been in that situation.
Show me any photo that you think is "powerful" despite being badly composed and I can probably point out to you how the photographer actually did use good technique to make the shot work. i.e. in this one
>>3294470 the inclusion of the men standing above all the corpses is clearly deliberate and the shot would not be the same at all without them.
Learning how to compose, expose etc. is not just about getting the "perfect" shot it's about simply being able to say one thing instead of another thing, it's about knowing what impact the shot will have depending on choices made behind the camera, and any seasoned photographer is making those choices.
