“There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers."” KnowsNeedsStoriesKnow HowApproachPhotographerEnormousNarrativeNuance Author:Fred Ritchin
“I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.” WayNeedsWellsPerspectiveJournalistVisuals Author:Fred Ritchin
“Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.” NeedsMadeViewsStreetsSourceCamerasPhotographerBillionsMake SenseEnterpriseGoogleSurveillanceFiltersHybridLegionCuratorPhotojournalismOverabundanceSurveillance Cameras Author:Fred Ritchin
“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.” WorldNeedsMayShowsAttentionDemandHappeningsPhotographVersionsViewersPosing Author:Fred Ritchin
