Fred Ritchin

About Fred Ritchin

Fred Ritchin, a professor of photography and imaging at New York University, is the author of “After Photography,” a book about the new digital potentials that has been translated into Chinese, French, Korean and Spanish. His blog is www.pixelpress.org/afterphotography.

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Failing to Harness the Web’s Visual Promise

By Fred Ritchin• Technology• March 30, 2010

Today, too many news organizations still don’t take advantage of digital media’s capacity to give readers contextual information and to engage them in finding out more about the story the pictures tell. Read more

The Web Waits for the Photographer, Too

By Fred Ritchin• Visual Journalism• June 15, 1998

The World Wide Web has been heralded as a medium that provides new ways to explore the world and communicate what one finds. Unfortunately, very little of the anticipated paradigm shift from conventional journalism to an alternative, multimedia practice has … Read more