Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers

Editing Pictures, Influencing Photographers

Photographers recall photo editors’ influence on their careers in Part 2 of a two-part series on that symbiotic relationship.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/editing-pictures-influencing-photographers/?_r=0

Yesterday and today on Lens, photographers pay tribute to the photo editors who most influenced their careers. As Yunghi Kim and Kenneth Jarecke wrote in yesterday’s introduction, these editors are “the people who pushed, pulled and occasionally strong-armed them into producing exceptional work. The people who believed in them when nobody else did — who recognized the photographer’s strength and took the time to develop it.”