Persistence. Above and beyond any of all the attributes that can make a photographer great, persistence is probably number one. All the other skills needed to be a photographer can be learned, persistence cannot. Most photographers will stop shooting when faced with an obstacle, either...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

All is well. 
School bags transformed in bulletproof shields, a building collapses, a report on the survivors of the massacre in Oslo, a U.S. President clowning. This is the month of May, a month that is supposed to be full of hope. But after carefully observing the faces of ...

03.05.2013[ read full story ]

From millions, many. Is the world of photography becoming the rule of the crowd instead of the benevolent despotism of the professional editor? And who will decide? 
From the one to many distribution system that dominated the end of the last century ( one publication, many readers), we...

03.05.2013[ read full story ]

Not once since I began writing this column have I felt as sad as I feel right now. What must be happening today so that newspapers I read—newspapers which supposedly have a “visual policy”—what must be happening for them to be so devoid of pictures that mean something, instea...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

Sometimes just one image is enough. It doesn't matter how long the event has lasted, how many other images were taken. One picture tells it all. The World Press Award has become a master in revealing those images that have elevated the event in significance and propelled it far beyon...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

They say hell is paved with good intentions. In the case of photoshop, it is certainly true. What started as a software made to correct and enhance digitally made image has now become the best and worst enemy of photography. In the photojournalism world, while it can help saving imag...

19.04.2013[ read full story ]

I’m running late so I’ll be brief. “No ding, dong,” the slogan of the English who don’t appreciate the millions of pounds spent on the Iron Lady’s funeral. Did she ever meet Lakshmi Mittal when she was in office? A bomb in Boston,that was appalling, like the declarations of...

19.04.2013[ read full story ]

It would seem as though fashion trends are currently being influenced by political trends, and in this month's fashion press review we see that "shock of simplification" taking form (austerity measures on great fashion images?). But happily, spring is officially here, birds are ...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]

There is no ultimate photograph. A photograph that would end all photography.There are images that dance on the edge of perfection, those that push boundaries, but none that end photography.not even the shear volume of photographs taken can remotely come close. No photograph, or amount...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]

It was a good week with a little bit of everything: orangutans might not go extinct, insects are the protein of the future, breasts are set free in defiance of a dictator, the rabbit ignores the snow, and Margaret Thatcher is dead. The Iron Lady will soon rust over. She was t...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]