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Why do you take

pictures?

OVER THE COURSE OF PHOTO REVIEW’S 75 EDITIONS, WE’VE INTERVIEWED

MORE THAN 200 PHOTOGRAPHERS. AND AT THE HEART OF EVERY ONE
OF THOSE STORIES IS A PERSONAL ANSWER TO A SIMPLE QUESTION.

verybody takes photographs, but true comes from a rather different place than
photographers understand that there Lee Duguid. Using montage techniques, she
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image is something that can stand on its www.twitter.com/mr_realsurf in her introduction on page 23, Japan is a
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On the occasion of our 75th edition, I thought it On Facebook: but safe and easily traversed.
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would be interesting to hear how my Photo Review Popping on her technical editor’s hat,
colleagues responded to the question posed On Instagram Margaret digs into the topic of mechanical and
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in the title of this column. Technical editor electronic shutter mechanisms – how they
Margaret Brown’ whose photographic work work and the advantages and trade-offs of
appears in every edition, replied to my email the different types. Demonstrating her usual
query in characteristic fashion. versatility, she then explains why copyright still
‘Because I feel that an image isn't a ‘Getting interested in photography, and matters to photographers in the digital age.
photograph until it is printed, I think it's especially taking photos myself, has heightened She rounds up her contributions to this issue
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prints in mind at the start of any photo shoot. in the world, whether I'm in the process of photo book (see page 46).
So, aside from the obligatory camera testing, using a camera or not. And with a camera, As we put our 75th edition to bed and
the main thing that motivates me to pick up it's a deeply personal appreciation I can begin work on issue 76, I’d like to thank our
a camera is having something interesting to share with other people, for my own creative publisher, David O’Sullivan for his indefatigable
photograph; preferably a subject that I can satisfaction and in the hope that I'm helping determination to make Photo Review something
take enough shots of to produce a series of to heighten their awareness as well. more than just another photo mag. By any
enlargements (at least A3 size) or a printed book. ‘Photography also helps me cope with the reasonable reckoning, he’s achieved that
I make books documenting each of the trips I random chaos of the world by giving me the ambition. Moreover I think it says something
take as well as books on favourite genres, such means to extract a sort of visual poetry from about the kind of person Dave is that the
as street photography, landscapes, cityscapes it. It's part of my psychological illusion that editorial team he started with are all still on
and cloud formations. Images for them are life is something I have control over. At least, board 75 issues later. Magazines are team
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from the best shots taken over a period of time, Like Margaret and Steve, this edition’s the team with Margaret Brown, Steve Packer,
sometimes several years.’ Inspiration photographers answer the question Keith Shipton and artist Mel Kallas.
Writer Steve Packer is, like Margaret, a former of why they make pictures in their own distinctly May the great Photo Review adventure
editor of photographic publications and a long individual ways. continue for years to come!
time picture maker. The beautiful image on our cover is the work
‘My favourite quote about photography came RI WDOHQWHG DQG ÀHUFHO\ GHGLFDWHG ODQGVFDSH
from an American called Brooks Anderson, shooter Lee Duguid. As you’ll discover when you
who said: "The virtue of the camera is not the turn to page four, Lee’s photographic motivations
power it has to transform the photographer into have always included a competitive drive to excel
an artist, but the impulse it gives him [or her, at his craft. For Portland, NSW photographer Don Norris
obviously] to keep on looking." Sue Daley, the motivation to craft photographs Editor

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