World Press Photo and photojournalism copying itself

May 14, 2009 |  by Tim Gruber  |  contests  | 

Quoting one juror as commentating that 90% of the pictures submitted were about 10% of the world, he questioned why most photojournalism investigates a very limited series of tropes in a very limited series of visual approaches, becoming a self replicating machine that churns of copies of itself in perpetual motion, which he described as a ‘feeling that photojournalism, rather than trying to reinvent itself its trying to copy itself.

Read more from the article on World Press Photo at the Foto8 website.

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1 Comment


  1. it’s true. I linked to someone saying essentially this earlier in the week: cartier-bresson played such a great song that we’re all still humming it while we compose our own unoriginal tune.

    but is it a bad thing? not so sure.

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