Arielle Emmett has written a sombre and thought-provoking piece for the American Journalism Review, discussing the role and impact of graphic photojournalism in the wake of the recent Haitian earthquake.
With natural disaster and war comes violent and bloody death; in some cases on such a scale that it’s hard to take in.
Colin Mulvany, multimedia producer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, writes a sobering and thought-provoking article outlining his vision of photojournalism in the age of the internet.
His view is simple: photojournalists can cling to their still cameras and remain “purists” – or they can embrace audio and video devices, adding them to what he calls their “storytelling toolboxes”. He’s pretty sure he knows which of the two strategies is going to be most successful in the coming years.
