Meet up with Ricardo García Vilanova – 2020 World Press Photo Awards Winner / FUJIFILM

Fujifilm meet up with Ricardo García Vilanova 2020 World Press Photo Awards Winner. Below is a summary of the interview

WPPI is the most reputable photo contest in the world
The media isn’t really interested in Iraq anymore
Ricardo García Vilanova got involved in Iraq because the story was being ignored
There are no tips to give about how to stay safe in a very dangerous situation like covering Iraq
In a warzone everything is chaos
Being lucky is very important
Equipment is an essential tool and for Ricardo it is the X-T3
X-T3 is amazing because it is little and fast
Before he had a big camera and people would see him
X-T3 is strong and waterproof (it’s not waterproof just resistant)
10-24mm is Ricardo’s favorite lens and the only one he uses
His subjects tend to be very close
If you’re 20 meters away you the people are distant and it is a different feeling
If you shoot people wide they are close to you and it is a different experience
He has an X-T3 in his bag and what looks like an X-T30 for if the X-T3 has issues
The Photography industry is different now because everyone has phones with cameras on them
Every person is a photographer in the world
Before the difference between the professional and the amateur was clear but now not so much
You don’t need a big camera with a lot of lenses to do a job like photojournalism
All you need to do photojournalism is to be close

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