The Thanks

Some of us have been saying this for years.

Though not as well as Paul Graham.

[T]here remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get photography. They get artists who use photography to illustrate their ideas, installations, performances and concepts, who deploy the medium as one of a range of artistic strategies to complete their work. But photography for and of itself -photographs taken from the world as it is– are misunderstood as a collection of random observations and lucky moments, or muddled up with photojournalism, or tarred with a semi-derogatory ‘documentary’ tag.

Read the whole thing. It's something that has needed to be said for a long time.

Thanks Paul.

And for a change, here's me slagging some local photographers.

However, they are well-regarded by people who I would slot into the "part of the art world that simply does not get photography".