“I think there’s a certain arrogance that goes with wanting to do something like this.”
That’s Chris Buck telling me what it takes to become a photographer; it’s one of many astute insights he had when I talked to him on the phone several weeks ago.
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Having worked as a TV news reporter I found Charlie’s piece very amusing – some of us have long believed reporting like this is a rubbish way to do things! But even if a journalist wants to tell stories in a more authentic and engaging way, the constraints of the so-called “house style” in many news organisations make it difficult to achieve. What’s needed is a massive culture shift and a complete re-think of what we understand quality broadcast news reporting is. And guess what?....
Winograd photographed, to paraphrase him, to see what the photograph would look like. Simple. This art critic is confused because of his western art critic approach. An eastern philosopher would have no trouble accepting Winograd’s koan like statement and the unity of his body of work under that concept..
Def some amazing work by some of these guys. The wedding work not so much but some of the more artistic work is very inspirational..
Spot on..
The elfpa is for bringing together the photographers from europe and it’s main course of non-profit work. Also, the elfpa is working wyth young people and showing them the beauty of photography. The elfpa was est. in 2006 and it has about 6000 members, from europe trying to make the LF more interesting for europe photographers..