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December 31, 2006

eugene richards on photojournalism

What matters to me is in levels. If you are a photojournalist what matters is trying to tell the truth. And then what matters later is to provide a context. And then what matters is trying to make a photograph that someone would look at; because if they don’t look at it it’s all for nothing. And then what matters is what people think of the work. And whether anything you thought and tried to put down on paper translates. And sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it does. I think in the end what matters is as anybody in the media knows, the final thing that matters is getting things out; out in the world. Maybe creating a dialogue or maybe sometimes the conflict.


Eugene Richards

Posted by amin at December 31, 2006 2:10 AM