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February 27, 2008

Who is to be pleased?

David Hobby, Strobist meister, has an interesting post about for whom the photos toll. Or, more directly: Are the photos for the subject, the viewers or the photographers who make them?

"Magazines (WIRED comes to mind) do not exist only to be filled with namby-pamby, flattering photos of people. (How boring would that be?) And yet, if your first goal is to please the person sitting for your photo, that is exactly where you might be headed," he states.

So for whom do you make your photos? Let's hear it.  

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A staff photographer with The Sun since March 2003, Christopher T. Assaf started his career after earning a journalism degree from Kansas State University. He has been a staff photographer and chief photographer at newspapers in Newport Beach, Calif., Biddeford, Maine, and Elgin, Ill. His stint in Chicagoland ended as photo editor for the now short-lived CityTalk magazine.
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