Flickring Out

What Magnum is selling “is the story aspect of the craft,” says Mark Lubell, the agency’s New York bureau chief. Anyone can take a decent photo, as the bromide goes, through talent or luck, but few can extend it into masterful narratives. There’s still a special recipe to be a “real” photojournalist, and it’s not just the “trained” or “expert” eye but rather the sheer hours put into each assignment and the ability to sustain a thought, image, or impulse through a number of images, not just a single snapshot. This brings to mind the art photographer Steven Shore’s remark that photography is like fly-fishing. It takes extreme patience—a sort of intelligence about time.

A diferença entre "capturar o momento" e "capturar o contexto" no Columbia Journalism Review, ou como todos estes novos fotógrafos amadores da era digital estão a comer um bocadinho do foto jornalismo (ou será só o mau?).

via Conscientious