Photography is amazing! A much deserved 5,786 retweets and over 32,000 ‘shares’…

Massive respect to Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.

I got tired of people exploring medium/large format photography using architecture for the sake of seeing what aesthetics they can produce in large sizes to sell to galleries in limited editions because Gursky, Tom Hunter, Polidori, Burtynsky all made some money that way (or for you trustafarians, got into your favourite galleries). For a while it seemed like everyone was copying everyone proclaiming creativity because they could copy it.

However, the books can be magical because they used their visions to a narrative about the world and that is why I love this work in Detroit. The images are beautiful and the project has the wonderful “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts…” thing going on. I learn about Detroit and my imagination comes alive in that magical mental space photography affords the viewer and it is very socially relevent to what is going on today in the American economy.

I am a big photography book fan because of this and I will be ordering this if the whole thing is as good as this lovely selection online because at $125, £78 and €88.00… it ain’t cheap!

Great work from the Guardian as they are rewarded with an amazing quanititative success as the same story told with text has only 71 retweets and 1552 ‘shares’ at the time of writing, showing those who think photojournalism is dead that it is only because they are not running it very well and are stuck lementing a golden age that has long gone!

That is the most important point of this post.

Have faith all you shooters in the world your hard work will be rewarded!

(All you need are better business minds to run your career’s – ask what your agent and/or your photo editors are doing for you and/or your publications to make a positive difference!)