Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arturo wrote: <<<< Maybe Eric Welch or other pros out there can answer this better than I, but do we need major historical events to produce great photojournalism that 95% of the public will take interest?>>>> Arturo, It has always been this way. If you can't shoot interesting great photos in your own home town, you'll not shoot great pictures in heavan or any place else. Here in Canada there is a young photographer who lives in a small town in British Columbia, where virtually nothing ever happens on a national nor international scale of interest. And you know what? He has been Canadian newsphotographer of the year twice in the past three years!! He is imaginative and creates very exciting picture essays and single feature photos. If ever there was a photographer who could make a silk purse out of a sows ear, it's this photographer. He is amazing in the work he does with B&W week after week, month after month! The photography is exciting, extremely well executed and of a quality not seen in most of the "Big cities of Canada newspapers!" And I'd venture, many of those in the US. A passible photographer any where will not make a "great photographer" nor great pictures covering the most exciting venues anywhere in the world or on the moon. If you can't cut the film in the small towns of the world, you sure as hell aren't going to produce great images in the middle of a war, famine, high society or high school graduation! ted