Photography offers an immediacy to the action that cannot be seen in any other media outside of Film. Even film struggles at times to capture the moment and preserve the essence of that moment as Photography does. The power of reportage photography was really felt in the Vietnam war where American photographers were able to catalogue the atrocities that the US Army was committing in real time, this brought public opinion against the war and bring about it's end. In conflict the photograph is more powerful than any other medium.
ROBERT CAPA
Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist and also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taró. He died in 1954. Quotes by Robert Capa : "if your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough". "I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life".
This image looks quite creepy because i took the picture from round the corner. This would be proximity because the wall is in focus but my friend is blurred in the background.