Visa Pour l'Image: Thinking locally

Photojournalism needed more than ever today!

“Millions of people living in the US only have Fox News and CNN, and their perceptions are shaped by these news networks. They think the whole world is like that. My point was that I wanted to do a story about Islam that isn’t based on the idea of good or bad. My intention was to show the multiple layers of Islam and even its contradictions – how different people are practising Islam within Bangladesh.”

This clearly shows that despite the proliferation of TV news networks we are clearly only seeing on our television and hearing on our radios or reading on the Internet a tiny part of what is really happening in the world today.

If there was ever a time when committed photojournalism was sorely needed it is today because so much of modern news is merely propaganda and the reality of the majority of the everyday lives of most of the people in the world is overlooked.

Roger

More Photojournalism of Daily Life Please

I can only agree with Roger Blackwell. Too much media coverage of extra ordinary events leeds us all to have no understanding of everyday life of most of our fellow beings around the world. Photojournalism showing the commonplace done in interesting and informative ways would teach us all about how people around the world really live rather than the spectacular news events we see.

Some time ago I photographed in Transylvania for 5 weeks over 4 years recording everyday life of rural people. It is a way of life very little known or understood by most 'western' people. When I see well photographed stories of daily life around the world they are always of interest to me, I can't be the only person who wants to know and understand other people lives in this way.
Paul
www.glendell.co.uk or http://tinyurl.com/353y4uw

for my pix of transylvania - not on the same par as the photogarpher in this story I'm afraid