Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal Philby wrote: > Besides, how often do photographer get treated as important and worthy > of someone's attention, instead of being introduced as "my > photographer" > by a writer (another of my pet peeves). My response to this: How often do people page through a magazine to "just read the articles." You make an interesting point here. As a photojournalist we are responsible for bringing back the photos of the event we are covering and in many instances we are the only "on scene" person so we have to provide information for the wordsmiths, and in many cases write the story. This is really true if shooting for a wire service/agency where you are providing ALL of the information with your photos. I have never seen a writer capable of doing all of this (most writers I have worked with can't even handle a point and shoot camera!), but we are the ones looked upon as a ragtag second thought to the journalism world. It is a proven fact a weak story with excellent art will get better play in publication. After all most people only look at the photos anyway! - -- Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto