For the budding photojournalist navigating the waters of modern journalism, this is a thoughtful article to chew on. And I am chewing on it. There's been a greater push for online, multimedia stories that include not just writing and photography, but also video, interactive maps, and live streaming via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Where one or two images used to summarize the contents of an entire story, readers seem to be craving more.
In a nutshell, "How Photography's 'Decisive Moment' Often Depicts an Incomplete View of Reality", by Fred Ritchin, comments on how some photojournalists have been accused of creating a simplified view of the world. It argues that, actually, the issue may lie in the rigid presentation of their work by publishers.
In all fairness, there's only so much detail one can glean from single photograph. Journalism's answer to this, so far, has been to forge the kitchen sink of storytelling, multimedia. These stories are, optimistically, more honest and, hopefully, more entertaining for the reader. And this editorial is a fair argument for it.
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