12 May 2008

Firenze A/R - Paolo Saccheri

I took some snapshots during my travel. Not much care about meaningful subjects, just what attracted my eye. Can those picture be considered documentary? Would you call them a document of a travel to Florence? Probably not in common sense (I didn't shoot any picture of Florence!). Reportage photography can be done with the ability of telling a story with
several pictures, in some cases even with just one picture. The question is what can we consider a reportage or a documentary picture? Photojournalism (that I did for few years) have its own rules to be able to sell to newspapers or magazines. But talking only photographically, every story of any subject can be documentary, in my opinion, if that story tells something we know or we would like to know and if the story is taken with either intimate or shouting pictures that have the ability of giving us emotions and rational.






Photographer: Paolo Saccheri
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous12 May, 2008 20:08

    Paolo, you are my brother in train travelling :)

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  2. Fredrik Skott12 May, 2008 21:40

    Nice pictures!

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  3. Mikael12 May, 2008 22:31

    Nicely captured by an sensitive eye and mind!

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  4. Anonymous13 May, 2008 02:15

    I must say that often I do not like series of photographs, because they are weak individually and the photographer tries to give them strength by putting them together.

    That is not the case with these -- each one is a perfect jewel. Nicely done :)

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  5. Rhonda Boocock13 May, 2008 02:52

    I think it is a good thing to discuss what exactly a documentary photo is...either way these are excellent photographs in any genre.

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  6. Anonymous13 May, 2008 10:43

    Fine work Paolo
    Love it!

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