While looking for wild horses to photograph for a job, I encountered these stunning yet very non-wild specimens.
I still think there are two kinds of information. The first kind is the information you know you need to know–the weather, the interest rate, the majority of the news, the data you need to live your life. It accounts for most of what you see in the paper and on the internet. It’s the most competitive and cut-throat part of the news business, and its the part that everyone forgets most easily–they might remember the data, but they don’t need to remember where they got it, because it’s all the same, style-free, and repeated everywhere. You can get that informaiton even in an elevator.
The other kind of information is the information you didn’t know you were longing to know. This is the kind of information long-form non-fiction traffics in, the kind of information and knowledge and insight people read novels and long magazine articles and non-fiction books to get. The kind of information you get from really well-told stories, that makes your life worth living.
…I think that kind of writing and story-telling and journalism, the kind that by dint of style and skilful story-telling lets us slow down and locate ourselves in the world and history and existence, lets us think and feel and experience the story as if we were there. I think that kind of journalism is more important nowadays, when no one has the time to complete a task, than ever before. And slowly newspapers are starting to realize it.
–Ian Brown, journalist and author of The Boy in the Moon who just won a major literary non-fiction award.
The above passage taken from this short interview with Brown is an encouraging for any journalist writer or photographer pursuing otherwise obscure, under reported, or non “elevator” kinds of stories.
I first learned of Ian Brown from the beautifully made Globe and Mail series also called The Boy in the Moon. In it, Brown poses some thought provoking questions about the life of Walker, his seriously handicapped child.
The white out eventually turned us around but still, it was a welcome day of mountain slogging.
A portrait of Rob Peters for the March issue of Report on Business Magazine.
A few images from Athabasca appeared on the PDN photo of the day site today. Thank-you Amber T.
Until I find ways to find a full-time income through photography, I continue to work in the field of arboriculture which, considering the guys I work with and the environment I work in, is really quite fine.
