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Getting access to photographic subjects

Getting access to photographic subjects

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Getting access to photographic subjects

- This week on The Practicing Photographer I have Paul Taggart here on my left. You might have seen Paul here in the library uh, let's see, shooting giraffes, shooting a sculpture, shooting a circus. You've seen Paul in these very strange locations. Paul, that's normal for you, you're a photojournalist. How do you get access to all this kind of stuff? - Um, it's a good question. (chuckles) Usually it's just, it starts with coming up with an idea of what you want to photograph. Sometimes somebody calls you and says, "Hey, go photograph this." but often times, it just comes from inside, "Hey, these are things that I'm interested in." And then from there, I decide how I'm gonna access that. For instance, with the circus, it was just a matter of picking up a phone call and dropping a couple of emails. And I also had the help of a producer that was working with me as well and she made a lot of those phone calls as well so often times it's a collaboration. It's not unusual for me to do all…

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