Start Magazine in collaboration with Zagreb City Museum
Today one could define photojournalists as photographers published in press. Not just documenters of wars in Lebanon or Latin America or of the political scene, but also the portrait artists, the fashion and still life photographers. If the history of photography is also evolution of ways of seeing the world around us, then it's not just those who chase down world events who have interpreted the current period. Thus, it's safe to say that Guy Bourdin, a contributor to Vogue for 20 years is an important photojournalist. Who more than he has shaped today's vision of women, luxury, fashion – the cross currents of desire and appearance?
As both journalism and photography are multifaceted, it's quite natural that today there is no longer one definition of photojournalism. True photographers are those with personal obsessions, attached to certain types of images, confident but questioning towards the world.
More than ever before, photojournalists are those who in using photos to discover their own impressions of the world, present them to us in the pages of newspapers and magazines. These run the gamut from photo essay to portrait to fashion or still-life photography. Because photography, like journalism, is subjective, the era of auteur photographers has arrived, and the primary importance of what they give us, as with journalists, is their unique, personal angle. They give us what they see.
Christian Caujoulle
