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Thursday 2 May 2019

Donald Weber: Making Pictures About Something vs. Pictures of Something

In a nutshell, what does the work of a photojournalist or documentary photographer entail? Canadian photographer Donald Weber summed it up nicely in his opening statement for a VICE Picture Perfect episode on photographing the Fukushima disaster. "I love photography, but I'm not really interested in a picture. There's a difference between pictures of something, and pictures about something. And I wanted to make pictures about something." Among his biggest bodies of work that best drive this point across draw the parallels between the nuclear disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima.

from The Phoblographer http://bit.ly/2IV7pzw

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