Photography — the action of light on a sensitive surface: film or an optical sensor. — Merriam-Webster A quiet campaign is underway to keep one word clean. Photographers who came up through light — aperture, exposure, the grain of a real moment — want photography reserved for capture, and some other word handed to whatever [ ] The post The Wrong Battlefield appeared first on Thoughts of a Bohemian…
What people often forget about photojournalism is that it starts with the word at the end: journalism. And very often, they confuse photojournalism with news photography. They might seem the same, but they are not, far from it. In photojournalism, everything starts with journalism. There is, first and foremost, a professional work to investigate [ ] The post Flipping the Switch on Democracy…