Journal #4: Response to comments on digital vs. 35mm photography
In the past couple of weeks I’ve been privy to comments made by several artists, on different occasions, who primarily work with 35mm photography. The comments made in each occasion and blatantly put were that, “digital photography is not photography and I would never work with it! Anybody can just snap and shoot.”
Even though I am a firm advocate of everyone’s right to what he,or she may believe, as a photographer who has worked in both mediums, I found this notion to be ludicrous. Indeed, while anybody can just “snap and shoot,” not everyone has a photographic eye, with the ability to capture a specific moment in time, exquisitely. Notwithstanding that the process of using 35mm film is a beautiful one, an artist’s decision to use digital vs. film should not make them less of a photographer by any means.
