{"id":2613,"date":"2025-12-23T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:24:04","slug":"how-a-photographer-from-a-tiny-town-gets-big-time-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/how-a-photographer-from-a-tiny-town-gets-big-time-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Photographer From a Tiny Town Gets Big-Time Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feature-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/12\/23\/how-a-photographer-from-a-tiny-town-gets-big-time-assignments\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-card-large size-card-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Left: A man in a plaid shirt, cap, and lanyard looks to the side at an outdoor event. Right: Black-and-white photo of a person standing in a grassy field under a cloudy sky.\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/michael-swensen-header.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mt. Olivet, Kentucky &#8212; named after the biblical Mount of Olives &#8212; is a hamlet in the smallest county in Kentucky. Population estimates vary, from 155 in 2023 to a bit higher number in the 2020 census. Photojournalist Michael Swensen, based in tiny Mt. Olivet, gets big-time assignments. His work has been seen worldwide via The Associated Press, Getty Images, The Washington Post, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/12\/23\/how-a-photographer-from-a-tiny-town-gets-big-time-assignments\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt. Olivet, Kentucky &#8212; named after the biblical Mount of Olives &#8212; is a hamlet in the smallest county in Kentucky. Population estimates vary, from 155 in 2023 to a bit higher number in the 2020 census. Photojournalist Michael Swensen, based in tiny Mt. Olivet, gets big-time assignments. His work has been seen worldwide via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moviestarpoker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}