The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
