Editorial Photography Conveying concepts with photography
Raju Peddada
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ― Robert Frank, photographer, film maker “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” – Richard Avedon, 1923 --2004
Editorial Photography... is a challenging proposition! How do you covey ideas, concepts, metaphors, facts or stories in images? More importantly, how do we convey a word, phrase, let alone a thousand words? One word: life, how do we convey it, with one idea image? The word is a seed, it contains a whole forest of possibilities. The image must also be a seed, several ideas, transcending detail for something whole and symbolic. Editorial photography is less about clarity, and more about uncertainty, ambiguity: our fundamental condition. It is more about ideas in subtle signals and telegraphy. Anything overt and manifest would be limited in scope, than something suggestive and ambiguous. It must be impressionistic, and induce the mind to wonder and meander. It's certainly not about aiming for a photograph worth a thousand words, it's actually looking for an image that can represent a word, a phrase with many ideas. It's about inferences and cues, so we can pull the puzzle together. Is this possible at all?
– Raju Peddada, July 2017
“Let us leave pretty woman to men devoid of imagination.” – Marcel Proust,1871-1922
Arts & Culture / “Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.” – Goethe
Business / “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” – Henry Ford
City Life / “Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.” – Dylan Thomas
Reviews / “A good review from critics is just another stay of execution.” – Dustin Hoffman
Trends / “I don't like trends. They tend to make everyone look the same.” – Carolina Herrera
Editorial / “The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
Essays / “Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter his time on essays.” – Karl Kraus
Exploration / “Exploration is really the essence of human spirit.” – Frank Borman
Lifestyle / “Your genetics load the gun. Your lifetsyle pulls the trigger.” – Dr. Mehmet Oz
Memoirs / “A memoir is an invitation into another man's privacy.” – Isabel Allende
Nation / “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucious
Nature / “The joy of looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
Photography / “Photography reveals the illusion that life really is.” – Raju Peddada
Reportage / “An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.” – Beckett
Technology / “Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – A. C. Clarke
Travel / “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
Reality / “There is a very faint line between reality and illusion.” – Raju Peddada
Editorial Photography by Raju Peddada Contact: Raju Peddada, Email: satyalukristimedia@gmail.com