A Photo Editor

My new favorite blog is bookmarked and already on the RSS feed. I've been enjoying it immensely for the little nuggets of wisdom I've found. A Photo Editor is written by a Photography Director based in New York City. "While I don't care if you know who I am or what magazine I work for, I would like to remain anonymous so I can keep my job and blog."

But what I do know about the anonymous photo editor is that s/he loves Chris Buck and Antonin Kratochvil, and has worked with Martin Schoeller and Dan Winters. S/he loves seeing your personal photos on our website "... to see the photos of your wife, kids, friends, vacations, birthday parties, breakfast, house, neighborhood is so absolutely pleasing to me and confirms your love of taking pictures and your need of an assignment so you can enjoy all these things."

And then my favorite post:

Yes it's true. Everyone. All the top editorial photographers take bad photos.

They just don't show it to me. Ever.

Thing is... I know everyone takes bad photos, it happens and it's not a big deal... I just don't wanted to be reminded of it when I'm looking for a photographer.

The promo, website and portfolio are all places where the possibility exists for you to remind me that shoots can sometimes turn out bland and then I suddenly get the feeling that the shoot I was about to hire you for will turn out bland.

I think I know why you do it. You don't have enough material yet or you want to show me how you can shoot portraits, food, B&W, color, holga, photoj, etc...

I want to live in a fantasy world where every single shoot is perfect. The best photographers let me.

19 September 2007 by Melissa Lyttle

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