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Photo Shoot or Photo Session A Linguistic Digression |
Many people call the occasion at which photographs are taken a photo shoot. (The two problematic terms are underlined.) I much prefer the term photo session for when I, of course, not take but make photographs. Taking implies subtraction, whereas artistic, creative endeavours always add. I find that photo session much more accurately reflects the nature of my photographic work. A photo session is something slower paced, informal and intimate, a dialogue between a photographer and his sitter, whereas a photo shoot is a hectic experience. The aim of a photo session is to produce photographs that express the person. A photo shoot produces many hundreds of pictures within a short space of time which show little more than a superficial image of somebody who was not allowed to be herself. The same dissatisfying situation occurs in other languages. In German, for instance, the equivalent term is Fototermin, literally a photo appointment. Too formal for my taste. I like the French term séance photo - it's interesting, romantic and mysterious. < back | Go to photo sessions > |
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