Hungry Eye Magazine

3rd Feb 2012

By Grant Scott, Editorial Director

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Hungry Eye is a magazine for the professional, the passionate and the inquisitive. A magazine for a new community of image makers, creating images and telling stories in a rapidly changing landscape of image making in which anything is possible. I’m the founder and editor of Hungry Eye online and inprint. I will make my position clear from the start. I am passionate about Hungry Eye. Not heard of us but want to know more? Then read on.

I’ve spent over twenty-five years working with, talking to, hanging out with, and listening to professional photographers. For the last ten years I have even worked as one myself. For a long time little changed. Then came the digital revolution. Some embraced the intruder others denied its quality and relevance to the professional. Our clients saw its benefits for them and demanded that we supply them with files and not prints. We did as they said. We needed to earn a living. The world began to change for the photographer.

Working digitally became an excepted process. We adapted. But the manufacturers were not content. They evolved, developed and pushed the capability and functionality of our new moulded plastic boxes. They gave us multiple megapixels, high ISO’s, ever-faster shutter speeds and the moving image. It was this final evolution, which blew the doors of the darkroom for good. One box, two choices, moving or still at the flick of a button. A new landscape was suddenly out there waiting to be discovered by the photographic community, with no map to help us find our way. Filmmakers needed no such map, they ventured forth and began to tell the stories they had always wanted to tell. Unrestricted by the need for big budgets and large teams they made hay, whilst the photographers waited for the sun to shine.

Slowly but surely photographers started to see new creative possibilities and began to experiment with filmmaking, with working in teams and with audio. The clients wanted the moving image and photographers realised that as with digital they had better adapt to survive. But this is not a message universally understood or accepted. Just as there were those who claimed that digital would never deliver, today there are those within the photographic community who dismiss filmmaking. At Hungry Eye we understand the new landscape and are excited to be part of it. If you want to be part of it to come and join us, we’d love to have on board. After all shouldn’t have one have a Hungry Eye?

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