Broadening the photographic story
March 26th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
From A Developing Story, a fascinating and critical post by Asim Rafiqui on taking photos in Africa. He is particularly ‘saddened’ by the treatment of a story about Zimbabwean villagers using the meat from a dead elephant, by a recent winner in a photography competition.
The entire construction of the sequence was troubling – and it is a construction because the photographer could just as well have broadened this story to show us a different possibility.
(Via @JoshHalliday and @Adamoxford on Twitter)
March 28th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Hi Judith,
thanks for posting this. Rafiqui is quite a writer and speaking as someone who has lived in Ethiopia this is a great article.
Benjamin