Thoughts of a Bohemian https://blog.melchersystem.com/ Another photo industry blog Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:28:02 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/blog.melchersystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/cropped-cropped-thoughts.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Thoughts of a Bohemian https://blog.melchersystem.com/ 32 32 63992558 The Wrong Battlefield https://blog.melchersystem.com/the-wrong-battlefield/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:28:02 +0000 https://blog.melchersystem.com/?p=7682 Photography — the action of light on a sensitive surface: film or an optical sensor. — Merriam-Webster A quiet campaign is underway to keep one word clean. Photographers who came up through light — aperture, exposure, the grain of a real moment — want “photography” reserved for capture, and some other word handed to whatever […]

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]]> 7682 Flipping the Switch on Democracy https://blog.melchersystem.com/flipping-the-switch-on-democracy/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:00:14 +0000 https://blog.melchersystem.com/?p=7614   What people often forget about photojournalism is that it starts with the word at the end: journalism. And very often, they confuse photojournalism with news photography. They might seem the same, but they are not, far from it. In photojournalism, everything starts with journalism. There is, first and foremost, a professional work to investigate […]

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