zondag, juni 05, 2005
Alex Majoli omarmt compacts maar mist degelijkheid van Olympus OM en Leica
In 2003, Magnum photographer Alex Majoli shot some big stories for Newsweek magazine. He spent a month in China shooting documentary images of daily life. He was in Congo for two weeks and Iraq for almost two months. In those two places he was shooting war.
Majoli's images for all three stories drew rave notices, and they earned him some of photojournalism's most prestigious awards in 2004, including the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism Magazine Photographer of the Year Award and the U.S. Overseas Press Club's Feature Photography Award.
It would seem reasonable to guess that all that award-winning work in remote and frequently dangerous places must have been shot with big, fast, bulletproof pro SLR cameras. But in fact, Majoli shot every frame with Olympus C-5050 digital point-and-shoots.
Majoli's photojournalist colleagues have been a bit more dubious. "In Iraq, other shooters looked at me like I'm crazy," the photographer remembers. "They said, 'What? What are you doing with this?'
Though he has had great success with his point-and-shoot cameras, Majoli has some improvements he'd like to see. When you add them up, they describe an enticing synthesis of the old and the new.
"I miss the strongest of the old generation cameras -- Olympus OM-1, the Leica."
Bron: Rob Galbraith.
Majoli's images for all three stories drew rave notices, and they earned him some of photojournalism's most prestigious awards in 2004, including the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism Magazine Photographer of the Year Award and the U.S. Overseas Press Club's Feature Photography Award.
It would seem reasonable to guess that all that award-winning work in remote and frequently dangerous places must have been shot with big, fast, bulletproof pro SLR cameras. But in fact, Majoli shot every frame with Olympus C-5050 digital point-and-shoots.
Majoli's photojournalist colleagues have been a bit more dubious. "In Iraq, other shooters looked at me like I'm crazy," the photographer remembers. "They said, 'What? What are you doing with this?'
Though he has had great success with his point-and-shoot cameras, Majoli has some improvements he'd like to see. When you add them up, they describe an enticing synthesis of the old and the new.
"I miss the strongest of the old generation cameras -- Olympus OM-1, the Leica."
Bron: Rob Galbraith.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 22:53
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