Scout Tufankjian

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Scout Tufankjian is an Armenian-American photojournalist based in Brooklyn, New York. From 2006 to 2008 she covered Senator Barack Obama's campaign for President of the United States, and was the only independent journalist to follow him from the run up to his announcing his candidacy through his victory on election night.[1] Tufankjian took more than 12,000 photographs throughout the campaign.[2] She released a book featuring a selection of the photographs titled Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign in December 2008, which sold out its initial 55,000 copy run a month before it was released.[1]

In August 2012, Tufankjian took a photo of Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama hugging each other, and the Obama campaign staff sent this picture out on the official Obama Facebook and Twitter accounts the night of the election, Nov. 6, 2012. This picture become the most liked photo on Facebook and most retweeted tweet in history.[3][4]

Works

  • Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign (2008)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andriana, Lynn (18 November 2008). "PowerHouse Sells Out First Printing of Obama Book". Publishers Weekly (Reed Business Information). Retrieved 15 December 2008. 
  2. ↑ Nurwisah, Ronald (5 November 2008). "Scout Tufankjian: Eyewitness to Obama's historic run". National Post (Canwest). Retrieved 15 December 2008. 
  3. ↑ http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/07/facebook_photo_of_barack_obama_hugging_michelle_is_most_liked_most_retweeted.html
  4. ↑ http://gizmodo.com/5959053/exclusive-the-story-behind-the-internets-most-popular-photo

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