Nowadays, new media gain more influence in information expanding. It creates more channels for audience to access to information they want and it also encourages content providers to produce more information and learn how to work with these new channels to gain more audience and find new way to tell story.¦

Susan Meiselas, the president of Magnum Foundation and leader of “Photography, Expanded”, told Chris Boot, the executive director of Aperture Foundation, during the interview about how new media might change the way photographer works. Susan said that in the past photographer work with magazine but now newmedia, especially online media, gain more influence so photographer should adapt to situation more rather than fear the change. They should learn how to use new media to not only gain more audience but to experiment more with new techniques that could present the story better or to show more than just one aspect.

Photography, Expanded is established to help photography engage more with new media. Its aim is to exchange knowledge and method among photographers to apply that knowledge into real works.

Susan also explained that transformed media, especially electronic one, should not only use for gaining more audience but should be used as a new approach to tell other aspect of story. It might not only tell the story but it might make audiences participate with the situation more sustainable and longer term.

New media also affects how photographers tell their story out. In the past, magazine and newspaper is the one who control and select story, which one should be told and which one shouldn’t. Now photographers have more chance to select and report more selectable topics, the untold story. Despite that there might be less budget support from publishing but there is online crowd funding like Kickstarter. Susan told that now Photography, Expanded try to find a formula that could support photographer for longer term.

Credit: http://www.aperture.org/blog/photography-expanded-conversation-chris-boot/

Image Courtesy of Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos