Nina Tisara was invited to speak to the Rotary Club of Alexandria on Living Legends and the Art of Photojournalism. Her talk answered:
What is photo-journalism?
How is it different from being a photographer or a journalist?
What does it take to do it well?
How can one recognize good photo-journalism when they see it?
What were your biggest challenges and how did you overcome them?
What has been unexpected?
Tisara said,
"There are many types of photographers and in some ways, today’s technology lets anybody and everybody be a photographer, someone who makes pictures with light. To my way of thinking being a photographer (with a capital P) means seeing the picture.
"Virtually anyone, any age, can take a technically acceptable photograph with today’s automatic cameras and smartphones. What no machine is yet smart enough to do is to tug your sleeve and say take this picture.
"A camera will photograph whatever it’s pointed at. You touch a button and you’ve got it. But you are the one who puts the camera in front of the picture. Where you stand, how you edit, what you leave in or out of the frame, that’s what makes a photographer. That and doing it in an instant because sometimes that as long as you get."
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Photos by Steven Halperson/Tisara Photography
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