The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

We have a long history of snapshot photography that appeared to many to be more arbitrary and idiosyncratic than much of the work of professionals. We valued it for what it could tell us about the details of people's daily lives.

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.