An amazing interview with an amazing soul. In an era when we talk about the "commoditization" of the image and the devaluing of the photographer, this is a wake up call for those with a true calling.
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P.S. Amazon sells the book at a substantial discount.
"The image is going to be . . . one of the main factors of change in the world."
"We know that a photo is important; we know that photos bring a lot of action and reaction, but what has been in the past 20 years—if it wasn’t for pictures, what would be the history of the humanity today? Nobody knows. But the people that have worked deep on photography, photographers, or picture editors, anybody that was involved in photography, like you, now you are involving—We know that it’s important and we’re doing something but we don’t know how big it is. And I think it’s very big. My feeling is that this is very, very big, but we don’t know, really."
"The impact, especially now, more from the individual journalist will come. The old media, somehow, are going to give away to a new type of media. Obviously, the Internet is going to play a very important role. I believe that the real democracy that you’re always talking about, everybody has a possibility to give his voice. This is what is coming up. So that’s what—I believe that, more and more, individuals are important. That’s why I’m putting all my energy in training people, not only in Afghanistan, but giving conferences, and materials, and talking to students in the world, because these are the ones that are going to change the world. Not CNN, not ABC news, or FOX, or whatever it’s called. The future is people like you, people that hold blogs, that became in their own way, using the internet—look at how Obama used the internet to be elected."
"It’s a job, but for me, photography’s not a job, it’s a way of life. It’s like breathing. It’s like, you know, if you don’t breathe, you die. And that’s what I do. I breathe with my camera, always . . ."
