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Bending the Frame – Fred Ritchen

mickyates August 14, 2019 Books, Critical Research Journal, Digital, Documentary, Ethics, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek10, Ideas, Journalism, Media Theory, Photography, Writing Leave a Comment

Notes from Ritchin’s 2013 book: Chapter 1: The Useful Photograph Sets stage for profusion of images, loss of professional monopoly, power of tech and the web. Citizen journalists may be more real as they are ‘in it personally’. Quotes W. Eugene Smith (Intro to Minamata,1975): ‘This is not an objective book. The first word I would remove from the folklore …

Let Us Now Praise Words

mickyates August 13, 2019 Books, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Ethics, FinalMajorProject, FMPWeek10, History, Ideas, Journalism, Media Theory, Photography, Reportage, Writing Leave a Comment

During the Depression, Fortune sent writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans document the lives of cotton sharecroppers in Alabama. It was meant to be part of a series Life and Circumstances. Agee was a poet, and he described himself as ‘more a communist than not‘. Evans was on loan to Fortune from the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Fortune never …

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My work is ‘Unfinished Stories’. Life is always in motion, every moment creates a sense of place or personality. Having travelled and worked all over the world, my photography is informed by my view that we are more the same than we are different – yet differences reveal stories. Details matter.

I seek intimacy, rapport with and understanding of the subject, whilst asking questions about who people are, what they’re doing, and what concerns them. I deliver to the best standard that I know how: technically, artistically, respectfully, ethically.

The aim is to delight and challenge audiences with engaging and creative story-telling.

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