Powerful Pictures at Perpignan
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Aug 22nd, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)PopPhoto informs us that In an era of splashy eye candy, a venerable photo festival refuses to pull punches.
“The Visa Pour L’image Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France, has long been oriented toward tough reportage, as opposed to celebrity journalism. “We were always anti-celebrity,” in the words of the festival’s dependably opinionated director, Jean-Françoise Leroy. “Well, sorry, we were wrong!” he adds. “At least photographers who do portraits of celebrities have some talent.”
As the Perpignan exhibitions and events program takes shape this year — it’s set for September 1 through 16 — Leroy’s message is not that the festival has suddenly embraced celebrity portraiture. It is, rather, an indictment of a perceived trend toward bland portrait work by photojournalists — what Leroy calls “posed photos, or even worse, imitation passport-style photos that are utterly meaningless.” More here
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