J.M. GIORDANO - TALK

When you're out being a photojournalist, it's very important to keep the human aspect in mind and not just be an observer. You're there to observe -it's a very fine line- you're there to observe, but you're also there to be a human being first.

If you want to be a good photojournalist, you have to care. Don't buy into that 'we don't help people, you have to stay outside the situation.'

If you want to get into photojournalism, nowadays, you really have to come up with an idea and a series, or a story to sell to a publication.

The future of photojournalism is project-based.

I tell my students: I don't take sides, I take photographs. So, gang member, passerby -I don't judge. That's not for me to do. I'm there to record and to interact.

Confuse the Germans!