High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Reid Turner Blackburn (August 11, 1952 – May 18, 1980) was a photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Blackburn was a photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington Columbian—as well as National Geographic magazine and the United States Geological Survey when he was caught at Coldwater Camp in the blast.