What does the essence of news photography mean?

News photography is an important way to transmit information, record history and reflect social changes. It lets people know the truth more intuitively through pictures and conveys the seriousness, rapidity and authenticity of news. News photography is not only to take good-looking photos, but more importantly, to seize the opportunity to convey social values and help more people to participate in thinking and solving social problems.

News photography needs quick response and judgment. It should seize the most important and expressive moment of news events and convey information through ingenious composition, light and shadow creation and sensory impact. At the same time, news photography has a profound sense of social responsibility, and it is necessary to avoid misleading or guiding events while conveying real events as much as possible. Therefore, news photography should have a lofty standard in authenticity and social value.

News photography is not isolated from society, it needs to be closely linked with the development of the times, culture and science and technology to meet the diversified communication needs. The arrival of the new media era has accelerated the development of news photography, which has formed a great tension between the aggressive real-time push of photographers and the diversified media reading of the target audience. Therefore, news photography must constantly innovate, bring forth the old and bring forth the new, and integrate into the public, so as to bring people new feelings.