Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Nathan offered: > Well, next weekend Lluis and I are going to Perpignan to inspect >> the doom and gloom for ourselves. >> The premise of the article is that the "raw material" for >> photojournalism are wars, famines and natural disasters. I >> think that's wrong. This is one of the reasons I stopped going to >> the >> World Press Photo exhibitions--it is always the war or disaster du >> jour that wins that award. Frankly, I don't care if I ever see >> another >> picture from Darfur or Afghanistan. I am much more interested in >> stuff >> like what Ric (to take an example we see every week) shows--daily >> life seen in an interesting way.<<<<<<<< > > Hi Nathan, > I stopped entering anything into international competitions for > exactly the same reason!!!! Similarly with national news ? related. > The only pictures that have any chance are the doom and gloom of > war, famine, death and destruction! the caring photojournalist as agent for change, as advocate for the downtrodden... how best to work in this direction by showing images of good, of the positive... examples? in lieu of the monstrously bad...? Steve