Fred Ritchin

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are…

— Fred Ritchin

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and…

— Fred Ritchin

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is…

— Fred Ritchin

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs.…

— Fred Ritchin

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

— Fred Ritchin

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

— Fred Ritchin

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

— Fred Ritchin

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point…

— Fred Ritchin

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to…

— Fred Ritchin

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because…

— Fred Ritchin

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful…

— Fred Ritchin

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

— Fred Ritchin

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

— Fred Ritchin

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the…

— Fred Ritchin

Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways…

— Fred Ritchin

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…

— Fred Ritchin

What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making…

— Fred Ritchin

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

— Fred Ritchin