What impresses me most when I look through his stream on Flickr is his access.<p>It is not easy to get into as many events as he has managed, and it even harder to get a seat or being allowed to get close enough to get a good picture. If he is not working for, or assignment for a media company he probably doesnt have a press pass, or at least not one that gets bouncers &#x2F; security people to step aside.<p>Presumably he gains more and more access as his pictures are published.   This is the key thing that will help him if he ever wants to get paid work out of it.  Leading powerful politicians will know him, and know him as a photographer. Getting that recognition is not easy for a photo journalist.<p>Getting started in photo journalism is really hard, and its getting harder as news agencies downsize both regular journalists and photographers The market is turning more and more toward video and crowd sourcing images.<p>Lets say you went to school, studied photography, getting started as a freelancer, you take ok pictures and you submit them and pray for a publication. If you are luck you get picked up a little here and there, but unless you get lucky, no one really pay attention to who you are.<p>He has taken a bold step, and his name is now known to editors at major publications.  Getting that network is far more difficult than learning how to 
take pictures.