![]() So for me, if there's something going on there, I want to get that. It's all about getting moving, not about celebrating. It’s filled with people who are slowly inching toward the start line. WBUR Staff Photographer Robin Lubbock: Well, I generally go to the start And at the start, it's very different. LH: How do you keep something like that kind of fresh every year like we have? From a visual perspective, what do you think about? Jose Bricena, of Cambridge, holds an American flag outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, where then-President Barack Obama spoke to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. And I'm always looking for new ways to visualize it. But you know it's just a news event that we have to cover. I don't want to say that I look forward to it. But the first three or four years were tough, I'll admit.īut not so much anymore. Once you got to Boylston Street, and you saw people really getting into watching the runners and celebrating and everything was - all right, it's not that bad. After all that was done, getting back into the driver's seat was kind of tough, you know, until pretty much once you got there. I was at Boylston Street everyday the week following the bombing, for Krystle Campbell's funeral, which was pretty heart-wrenching, and then Sean Collier’s memorial, the MIT police officer who died. The first three or four years it was really hard to rally and want to go down there. LH: Is there a single moment that sticks out to you from that day? Is it hard to talk about, and then go back and keep covering it every year? I know it's your job, but it can still be hard. Three women embrace during a moment of silence on April 15, 2015, marking two years since the bombings. You have a lot of people that have been affected by that incident, and usually there’s a pretty good turnout. Sometimes you'll find survivors of the blast there and it's very, very emotional. Generally, it's just a solemn moment and you're trying to capture that emotion. JC: They have a moment of silence on One Boston Day, and this year it's on the Saturday before the race. LH: What are you looking for when you go to cover memorials? They had, at that point, attended the last five Boston Marathon races. Eunice Walerui and Jane Wanja of Kenya celebrate Rita Jeptoo's 2014 win. I’m just trying to get a taste of what the race is like instead of it just being like ‘this person won the women's division, and this person won the men's division and these people won the wheelchair division.’ It's far more than that for me. You see people crossing the finish line together, and you know their friends or family - and they're happy. I'm trying to capture not so much the race, but the feeling of it, the camaraderie. Army National Guardsmen stand at a barricade at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street the day after the bombings. You gotta move around, and I’ve been called the ‘man without a home’ because I’m all over the place. JC: That's the one thing that's changed a lot since the bombing is there’s so much security, and it's sometimes hard to just stick in one place. A runner receives her medal for completing the 2014 Boston Marathon. Once in a while I'll get a glimpse of one of the elite runners, but it's hard, because there's a lot of security. ![]() I'd much rather capture color, capture people on the sidewalk, capture the runners that are finishing, the regular participants that are getting their medals, and you know, being exhausted, just trying to get that aspect of the race. We rely on Associated Press pretty much to capture the finish. By the time the elite runners come in, the sidewalks are packed, and it's tough to actually see the course. I do if I can, if I have the opportunity to. My role is not so much to capture the runners. WBUR Staff Photographer Jesse Costa: Generally, we don't cover sports. WBUR Director of Cross-Platform Collaboration Laura Hertzfeld: How do you decide how to cover the race itself and the memorials each year? You can see "The Finish Line" through April 14 in the windows of CitySpace, at 890 Commonwealth Ave. In the Q&A below, Costa and Lubbock discuss the stories behind those photographs. Some of those images are on display in "The Finish Line," a new exhibit on the bombings and the iconic race over the years. Over the ensuing decade, WBUR staff photographers Jesse Costa and Robin Lubbock have returned to the marathon, and to the victims and their families, to capture the resilience of Boston and the marathon community. ![]() The images from that day, and the weeks following, show both the horror of the crime and the vast resolve of the people in the region. Ten years have passed since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings shook this city and the world. ![]()
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