G11blog: side note

What do photojournalists need?

While working as a professional photojournalist on the african continent for three years now, I always asked myself the question: what needs a photojournalist ? These days we are all stuffed with tons of equipment, huge camera bodies and big, bulky lenses. Sure, it gives you a kick for you ego, you feel all important and you get treated professionally. But on the other hand, that is not why I started photojournalism. A photojournalist is best if he is invisible. Sometimes a tough job if your skin color already sticks out in Africa in a radius of several miles.

Inspired by likes of Alex Majoli I bought myself a smaller cam. A Canon G11. No that I want to do some advertising for this tool, but I'm rather interested to see if can move in the end from my bulky DSLR gear to a humble advanced point and shoot setup, and still be able to work as a photojournalist in a professional environment.

Montag, 26. April 2010

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