Natalie Fobes: The public & the photographers’ toolkit

At the Blue Earth Alliance's Collaborations for Cause conference, documentary photographer Natalie Fobes sat down with PhotoWings to offer inspirational stories from her career, as well as her insights into the photographic medium. No stranger to the power of photography to create change, she may be best remembered for her harrowing coverage of the Exxon Valdez disaster in the pages of National Geographic. Fobes founded the Blue Earth Alliance along with Phil Borges in 1996 to act as an aid for documentary photographers who seek to create positive change through their storytelling.

What could the general public learn from photographers? Natalie Fobes thinks that the wide set of skills that documentary photographers use in their trade can be applied across different contexts. She specifically identifies photographers’ way with people as well as their propensity for research as part of that set.

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