Donald Weber: Making Pictures About Something vs. Pictures of Something

In a nutshell, what does the work of a photojournalist or documentary photographer entail? Canadian photographer Donald Weber summed it up nicely in his opening statement for a VICE Picture Perfect episode on photographing the Fukushima disaster.

"I love photography, but I'm not really interested in a picture. There's a difference between pictures of something, and pictures about something. And I wanted to make pictures about something. " Among his biggest bodies of work that best drive this point across draw the parallels between the nuclear disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima. .

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2019-5-3 22:00