The Professor speaks..

Very interesting read over on David Campbell’s blog, asking why he has not seen more multimedia from the world’s recent events (think Japan, Egypt, Libya). Gazillions of stills images, not a whiff really of multimedia in whatever form. That means we are not learning as much in my opinion. Why is this?

“If I am correct about this absence of stills-based multimedia, photojournalism – as both an industry and creative practice – is currently missing a great opportunity to offer more in a way that is manageable for photographers in the field. In the first instance this is not the responsibility of individual photojournalists. I think agencies should take a lead in setting up a workflow along the lines indicted above. It would benefit all of us, but none more than the subjects of the stories.”

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  1. phojoe says:
    March 26, 2011 at 23:34

    I work for an photo agency and have been subtly pushing for the photogs to capture some video, audio, anything more then just photos and let us create the multimedia piece, but its hard to ask much more of them right now. After hearing the stories coming out of the current big news locations.. violent middle east revolutions and nuclear/earthquake/tsunami in japan.. it’s truly amazing and lucky that we are even getting photos out of these situations. I’m sure many of you have been reading/listening to interviews from journalists working in Libya and elsewhere saying that these situations have been some of the most extreme working conditions they have ever been in. I think the editors are just so distracted by the logistics of keeping their people safe and reporting that creating a multimedia piece is the last thing on their minds. I think after journalists start returning back to home base we will see some stunning multimedia work from their travels.

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