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This documentary focuses on the medium the magazine has helped to shape, looking at how photography has the power to impact our lives by bearing witness, helping to prove fact, giving us insight into each other, revealing unknown places, celebrating wonder and inspiring us to protect our natural world.
"The Power of Photography" by Robert Draper:
Today photography has become a global cacophony of freeze-frames. Millions of pictures are uploaded every minute.
Correspondingly, everyone is a subject, and knows it—any day now we will be adding the unguarded moment to the endangered species list. It’s on this hyper-egalitarian, quasi-Orwellian, all-too-camera-ready “terra infirma” that National Geographic’s photographers continue to stand out.
Why they do so is only partly explained by the innately personal choices (which lens for which lighting for which moment) that help define a photographer’s style.
Instead, the very best of their images remind us that a photograph has the power to do infinitely more than document. It can transport us to unseen worlds.
Comments:
Joseph O'Malley
National Geographic and Magnum photographers never give themselves rest from self congratulation and back slapping
Mac Appelmann
Wonderful thank you so much for uploading ????
Mark Summers
Okay it’s not the easiest job, I’ll give them that, but “the hardest job in the world?” Their egos are some of the biggest in the world. Nonetheless, I love Nat Geo.
Sid Smily
wat a idea to see the bests face among 100s. photographers r people in there own thoughts.
Shae MacMillan
great insight to the realities of being a photographer. National Geo is the leader for world photography
Masidza
I am an aspiring documentary photography. I don't have a camera yet, but I have written articles about the African villages and cultures, the ones which are never talked of
Jerecho Sison
Whats the title of the electric guitar and acoustic guitar solo?
Robert Carmona
Excellent and inspiring documentary. These Nat-Geo photographers are making and leaving behind a good legacy and creating history.
abetterangle
Awesome documentary, thank you
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