{"id":18784,"date":"2023-03-24T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:16:24","slug":"should-i-start-using-photographist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/18784","title":{"rendered":"Should I start using &#8220;Photographist&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-15.09.19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-15.09.19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-15.09.19.png 697w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-15.09.19-640x403.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If a term applies to everyone then it isn&#8217;t very useful. Now everyone takes photos all the time with their phones everyone is a photographer. The word is losing its meaning. Or it is beginning to mean just a guy (and it is usually is a guy) with a dedicated camera (probably an expensive one). I don&#8217;t want to be that guy. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-14.56.40.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"566\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-24-at-14.56.40.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18785\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I came across the term photographist. It sounds incredibly pretentious but is probably more appropriate for what I do when I make photos using 19th Century techniques. It had dropped out of use by the 20th Century. Maybe we should revive it? The thought makes me cringe though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a term applies to everyone then it isn&#8217;t very useful. Now everyone takes photos all the time with their phones everyone is a photographer. The word is losing its meaning. Or it is beginning to mean just a guy (and it is usually is a guy) with a dedicated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18787,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/18787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}