The latest issue of Time Magazine has an interesting take on the world of photojournalism. It concerns a Turkish photographer covering the refugee crisis in her country. She came across a young child lying face down in the water on the shore of a lake, having drowned trying to escape Syria with his family. She took pictures as an aid worker picked the child up and carried him away. When she came across the child, she “was petrified,” she told the Dogan News Agency, the organization she works for. “The only thing I could do is make his outcry heard.”
Time goes on to explore the image, saying that the most important attribute of the image is – a sense of absolute authenticity.
They go on to say “The photojournalism community has been increasingly embroiled in a controversy over what degree of digital editing is and is not permissible.”
The article ends with this quote: “The thing about this photograph is that it is impossible to forget once you’ve looked at it. Even if you shut your eyes immediately, it’s too late. The image is with you. It will remain in your memory forever. And that is what gives photography the power to change events.”
Sure makes what I do pretty trivial!!!