Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography — Reading the Pictures

Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography – Reading The Pictures

I have to say that, up until the past year or so, I wasn’t seeing a whole lot of news photos that were this lush.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/09/geekfest/

what was instructive to me about Geekfest was how the presenters and the attendees conceived of the business that broadly, with the emphasis on “story telling,” the desire to capture “real life” in sports coverage, or the importance of a more authenticity in the brand shot. Just as interesting, however, is how much this lack of market distinction is mirrored in news photography itself