Russel Boyce originally got a degree in fine art studying at Hull University. He started his career doing printing work, PR, commercial work and news photography. Russell stuck with tabloid photography as that where the money is apparently. He told us how he has travelled round the world shooting news events, sports events and current affairs. Russell is currently working for Thomson Reuters, which is 160 years old and built on a trust principle written in 1941. It consists of six different photographers globally. They move 2000 images a day in two different offices on either side of the world. As he was explaining his job he was also discussing the down fall of it. This is how he is supposed to make money from this however no one pays to watch the news meaning theres less money for him to make.
Thomson Reuters is currently in major competition with Twitter and Instagram. The reason for this is because these social media websites are able to release news within minutes of it happening in real life. They are able to wirelessly transmit images from a camera onto their system in order for the picture to be broadcasted quickly.
Russel then went on to discuss how he goes about photographing images for the news and the different features he would look at in order for it to be a successfully sold image.
Wider image story telling
- general view - setting the scene where it happens
- portrait - what does the person look like
- action - what does the person do
- why/impact - what does that person do it
- detail - reveal a detail of something interesting
- wow factor - hero image
We were informed about how Russel uses news planners in order to plan what pictures he needs to take the next day or where he needs to be in order to shoot a story or event. This is helped along side their ‘Tracer’ software development at Reuters. A software which allows you to scan the internet for other news stories about similar events or the same event. It can be used to clarify whether an event actually took place or not.
At the end Russel was discussing his feelings towards taking images of such explicit content. He said that in some aspects he has a duty to show the public pictures proving that people are being killed but then again it is disrespectful for that family plus it is violent and disturbing imagery.
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