Category: Photojournalism

The photographs are not all that different from video clips. Who has not, clicking through a news report, landed on a still photograph, only to notice it begin to move? The palette is the same—yellow ochre, cadmium orange, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna—and the scenes are the same

A few days ago, I wrote an article for a German newspaper about THAT Trump picture. Given the typical length of such opinion pieces, there were a few strands that I was only able to allude to. They would benefit from a longer discussion. That’s what I want to be doing here.

“We’re working our asses off before the shoot, during the shoot, and then to edit after and we put so much effort into it because we care about the image,” says the anonymous photographer.

Of the 48 photographers who were surveyed, only four of them said that, in its current state, a career in freelance photojournalism is sustainable.