What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share
The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." — Fred Ritchin Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share
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
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
