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.

- Fred Ritchin

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…

- Fred Ritchin

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

- Fred Ritchin

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…

- Fred Ritchin

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

- Fred Ritchin

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…

- Fred Ritchin

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

- Fred Ritchin

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

- Fred Ritchin

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

- Fred Ritchin