Josh Metzler on the excellent The Image, Deconstructed site:
I’d like to say one very important thing about photojournalism (that may or
may not have anything to do with my image here) that I repeat over and over
to my students at Western Kentucky University. I show them some of the
most famous pictures ever taken – icons of eras in history, amazing moments
in news or daily life, and I stress to them, even to the beginning students,
that they are absolutely technically ready to make nearly all of those images.
If I could pop them into nearly any of those scenes right now, I think most of
them would make a great photo. But, what they can’t do quite yet, and what
we all work on throughout our careers, whether as students or seasoned
professionals, is the ability to get ourselves physically in place to take those
pictures.
