«And then there are the risks. And there are plenty of them. Physical risk, to begin with. That ranges from being beaten with a truncheon at a political demonstration to a stray bullet in the Suez Canal, from an off-road vehicle plunging into the Peruvian Andes to typhus caught in India for drinking the wrong water.
But the most subtle risk in my view is being told by an editorial team that the photos are beautiful, very beautiful, but there is no one who could write the article. The editor-in-chief at this point invariably proposes, “But couldn’t you write it?” The trap is set, and only giants can resist the temptation. I am not a giant. Thus is born the phototext, which is the most hybrid and most professionally equivocal journalistic production for a photographer.
It is at this point and continuing on this path that the photographer is forced to devote more and more time to texts, necessarily neglecting what also remains his profession-love: photojournalism».
Calogero Cascio