A Photo Editor - Best Multimedia Story From Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
Please take time to click the above and view the video and comments.
Not only a touching story, an important message and an amazing example of photojournalism, this is probably the best argument I've seen for broadening the definition of AV (audio-visual) used in the camera club world to include video in addition to still imagery.
…And broadening the definition of AV even further to allow the inclusion of images (both still and video) not actually taken by the photographer (after all the photographer is rarely responsible for the composition/creation of the soundtrack).
AV Needs To Change
The current definition of AV as 'still photographs set to music or a soundtrack' or 'still images, no video' has, in my view, become a straightjacket. Stifling innovation and perhaps worst of all limiting creativity. It doesn't allow the photographer to step out of a mould first created by the slide & tape 'masters of AV' back in the 1950s and 1960s. Now we're almost in the second decade of the new millennium, isn't it time we moved on?
A Question to Members
Should KPS lead the way? Should we be the first to change the definition of AV and embrace Multimedia?
We're known for innovation: the club who first embraced digital and the club with the best most thought-provoking speakers, should we innovate even further?
What do you think? Comment below.
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