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The Concerned Photographer For the concerned photographer there is an important distinction between subject, genre and theme that needs to be understood. The subject of your photograph might be a stream, face or building; the genre landscape, portrait or architecture; and the theme purity, fragility or the power of empire. The subject of the above image is an elderly gentleman in a village near Chennai (Madras) in southeast India. The photo fits the portrait genre, but what theme is being explored? Actually I think its important to make a clear distinction as to what a photo is about, from the photographer's point of view, compared to how that same image can be read by a potentially large an...

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