In this episode of the Lewiston Tribune Podcast, Managing Editor Matt Baney sits down with former Lewiston Tribune photographer and current director of photography for Gannett Newspapers in Oregon, Chris Pietsch, to revisit the story behind his iconic photograph of the 1987 Clarkston fireworks explosion.

Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:10 Right place, right time 2:28 The photo wasn’t even the main story, originally 3:00 How Chris ended up at the fireworks show/how the photos were taken 9:06 Did anyone get hurt? How were the vehicles? 10:10 Scrambling to do a fireworks show the next night 10:42 How did you shoot the famous photo? 11:03 Picking up on things after processing the film 12:14 Have you ever run into a situation quite like this one? 15:20 Working with longtime photo editor Barry Kough 18:30 Where does this event rank in yo ...