There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required..

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of professionals. W….

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of ….

Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more ho….

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives..

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative..

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative..

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it..

The decisive moment, the popular Henri Cartier-Bresson approach to photography in which a scene is stopped and depicted at a certain point of high vi….

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to….

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial ….

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not….

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive.".

The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime….

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources….

What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, o….

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community..

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a socie….

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactive….