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 I just picked up the latest issue of Progress Magazine. I was curious to see which photo of Brent Rourke the designer decided to use and was a bit disappointed with their choice. The photograph you see here is the one I suggested. The one they ran was exactly the photo they asked for - they were very specific in their assignment sheet. I tried to make a case by saying that the photo above better captures Mr. Rourke’s personality and the environment he works in. However, photographers very rarely win arguments with designers. In fact, these days photographers rarely win arguments at all and I think a big part of it is our own fault. With the pressure to start writing, capturing audio, video and producing multimedia, photographers seem to be an endangered species in today’s newsrooms. On a BBS board of a professional organization I belong to, a photographer said that unlike video, the photographs are meant to be studied. I agree with him and I think that the ability to capture and hold readers’ attention is often an underestimated property of photographs. The problem with word editors and designers who demand tight shots that remove context and diminish the story-telling properties of photographs is that they often simply do not see photography as a story-telling tool, but ‘art’ that is there to fill a page hole. A good start might be for us, the photographers, to learn the word world language and employ it when trying to describe why one photograph may be a better way of telling a particular story over another. | |
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