You are a member of a photography club of your school. You have been asked to submit some present day photographs with captions to be published in your school magazine. Write a report on the following: date and place visited - which were the subjects to be photographed- why did you choose them as your subject - what are the captions you have provided.
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LIGHTBOX LOVE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Why We Do It: Photographers and Photo Editors on the Passion That Drives Their Work
LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White making a precarious photo from the Chrysler Building. Oscar Graubner—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty
BY OLIVIER LAURENT
JUNE 30, 2017 12:15 PM EDT
The people who make up today’s thriving photographic community are our eyes to the world. Whether established artists and journalists or passionate emerging voices, they inform us, they inspire us, they amaze us, they put our world in the broader context of history.
But that community also faces great challenges — dwindling sales, increased competition and a fragile trust in photographers’ mission to inform. Too often, those factors can make those of us in that community, photographers and photo editors alike, lose sight of what drive us.
For this post, my last as editor of TIME LightBox, I asked 13 of my colleagues – some of the many photographers and photo editors who have influenced and inspired me over my last ten years in this industry – to answer these essential questions: Why do they do it? Why do they wake up every morning ready to take photographs, to edit them, to publish them? Why is photography important to them and, by extension, to all of us?