The sign behind the MT-LB, also a whole bunch of photographers arrived at this spot and focused on this particular frozen bro from all sorts of angles, and so he became a symbol, but ignored all of his friends lying nearby, and the other vehicles from the column too unless they got in the frame.
I'm also a photographer and would do the pictures in this place differently than most did. (I know the scene layout from videos.)
Let's say you arrived there and you walked away a bit (all my homies hate unexploded ordnance) from the others in the trip and you shoot this:
It's okay (pretty well composed) but nothing special, anyone could do it with their phone nowadays, so you can do it like that and make it artsy and personal:
Now that's much better as a professional photo, but when you have something really prominent and symbolic right there in the background you shouldn't just ignore it for the sake of focusing on the human aspect alone.
The sign behind the MT-LB, also a whole bunch of photographers arrived at this spot and focused on this particular frozen bro from all sorts of angles, and so he became a symbol, but ignored all of his friends lying nearby, and the other vehicles from the column too unless they got in the frame.
I'm also a photographer and would do the pictures in this place differently than most did. (I know the scene layout from videos.)
Let's say you arrived there and you walked away a bit (all my homies hate unexploded ordnance) from the others in the trip and you shoot this:
https://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20220301&t=2&i=1592731849&w=640&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=2022-03-01T004507Z_17810_MRPRC2YQS9ASSYC_RTRMADP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-FIGHTING
It's okay (pretty well composed) but nothing special, anyone could do it with their phone nowadays, so you can do it like that and make it artsy and personal:
https://images.hindustantimes.com/tech/img/2022/02/25/960x540/Ukraine-Invasion-103_1645813738941_1645813818745.jpg
Now that's much better as a professional photo, but when you have something really prominent and symbolic right there in the background you shouldn't just ignore it for the sake of focusing on the human aspect alone.