On multimedia... Jonas Bendiksen: “The modes of operating when you’re out photographing and when you are creating video are often very different. In the early days of experimenting with this, there was a false idea that one could easily go out and do both but if you’re going to do a four-minute video it demands real attention to do it well.”
Susan Meiselas talks about the Postcards from America project at the Magnum AGM Symposium, London, UK, 2013. Image © Ambra Vernuccio.
Christopher Anderson: “I don’t like the term ‘multimedia’... there are stills and then there’s documentary film. Documentary film can use a combination of stills, video and sound but let’s stop thinking like photographers putting sound to our pictures, and make films. Films are interesting; watching slideshows set to music is not. We thought about multimedia for a long time as the thing that was going to save photographers’ asses – and it didn’t.”
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Christopher Anderson presents his work at the Mag