Photojournalism at the Crossroads

The Road Less Traveled
"I really began to realize how Polaroid has a very appropriate place in the work I was doing while I was in Iraq the last year. To me, it changes my head space from when I am shooting digital, when errors need only be clicked away. I always feel something intimate and candid in Polaroid. Neither of these qualities are what come to mind when I think about most work I see from Somalia. I think sometimes the road less traveled with technical choices can best serve in seeing a side of a subject that we otherwise may miss if one follows the same choices again and again."

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