"These days anyone can take a great photograph, but not anyone can take a selection that is coherent and tells a story in an effective way. Thinking around your subject matter is the first step in creating a photo essay: what are you trying to communicate to your viewer?"
"The style in which a photographer edits their work is often as important in defining their visual voice as the photographs themselves."
"The point is not to accumulate as many images as possible, but to accumulate a set of images that all say something different and add up to a significant whole."
"Photo essays give the viewer an insight into a story that they may never have been able to access before... Magnum photographers work by telling stories. They’re trying to get to the root of an issue or theme that they’ve either been commissioned to photograph or are choosing to explore independently..."
"Within any essay, there will be some key images that are self-contained... but within the narrative all images are chosen to give the best overall representation of a subject. So the photographs interlink and their interrelationships are very important. As a result, some images may not stand alone, but are still vital in terms of the overall composition of the message that they’re trying to tell."
Excerpts from an Ideastap interview with Sophie Wright, Cultural and Print Room Director at Magnum Photos.
http://www.ideastap.com/ideasmag/all-articles/telling-a-story-in-pictures
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