“If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”
Reuters Photographers Blog
I first heard this many years ago when as a young freelance photographer working for AP in southern Europe I suggested to a visiting senior editor that lax security and one of the longest civilian runways in the world made the city’s airport an obvious destination for hijacked aircraft and that the absence in the bureau of any lens longer than an old 200mm would mean that we’d be hard pressed to cover it. “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” he said but what he meant was, “I have other priorities”.
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