Pippin Lee
Photo Editor
Click. Snap. Shoot. We capture a moment, something that strikes a chord in our imagination, brings us to a certain emotion. An image represents an instance in time, and despite advancements in photographic tools, photography has had the same principles from the beginning.
The stories in this supplement document the thoughts of the photographer, creating a deeper narrative with more substance. It is the job of the photographer to aptly show scenery with just a few frames provoking thought in the minds it reaches. Every situation a photographer finds herself in may give her a chance to capture something unrepeatable. It may be just a smile or a tear, but there is a story behind every image.
An image snapped from our world tells not only of the content physically constrained insides the borders of our camera frame, but of insight into how the photographers perceive the world. Great images are often born out of the great emotion the photographer put in them.
While imagery is important, value must be given to the stories behind the images because they give depth to the scenarios surrounding the image. Whether it’s images of people, nature or landscapes, the story and narrative push us to better understand why an image was taken. It’s often said an image is worth a thousand words, but I feel it’s important to look at how the image was produced, and more importantly why. Why was it important to document this scene? What is it in the image that makes this worth people seeing?
These are the questions we were looking to answer in the stories in this supplement; we wanted to show that the work of the photographer is not just a click or a snap, but that every moment of the photographer’s life leading up to that instance – all of that in some way compelled them to press the trigger and save the moment.
