Sam Abell Interview

Sam Abell Interview – A Photo Editor

Jonathan Blaustein: Are you still in love with photography, or has it gotten boring after all these years? Sam Abell: That’s a good question. I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years,

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/04/sam-abell-interview/

It’s shifted in a good way, away from what you might call the singular successful image, to the sustained body of work. Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who’s building up a point of view? Who’s photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive?