above two of my favorite photographers and a naked guy Vince Musi interviews David Alan Harvey
The annual National Geographic Seminar was earlier this month. The big news was that the gifted Lynn Johnson won the Photographers Photography Award (details here).
The day before we heard a wonderful presentation by JR about his work plastering faces all over the world. He is more inspirational in person than in his TED Talk.
For years the social hub of National Geographic Photography was David Alan Harvey's apartment. Lots of photographers spent countless hours sitting on his couch talking photography and ideas and life. Sadly that all went away when David moved to Brooklyn, but he and Vince Musi brought a little of it back with their conversation about Davids life and work.
The grand finale was Sabastio Salgado showing his Genesis project, eight years of work from around the planet. It was awe inspiring.
In spite of all that the greatest moment for me came during the photographers lunch. We were talking about pictures and how coverage at the magazine is changing in the digital era with editor Chris Johns. David Doubilet raised his voice and said (I'm sure I'm misquoting but this is the gist of it)
"in all my years I have never shot a picture for the magazine. I always shot for the tray, for the 40 or so pictures that we showed to the editor. It used to be that we couldn't put all those images in the magazine, but now with electronic publishing we can."
That was a great thought to end the seminar on. We can now tell more of the story than ever before.
Stephen Alvarez
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