Doe Quote by Fred Ritchin

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

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

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

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

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

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 of high…

— Fred Ritchin

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

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

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

— Fred Ritchin