José Azel interview

After some careful scheduling, I had a long overdue chance to catch up with José Azel yesterday. I was mostly interested in hearing about his take on how changing working methods and new tools of multimedia and web publishing are impacting the way photographers continue their work as visual storytellers.

With his usual broad-ranging, intelligent approach, José also talked about the need to balance passion with a strong business sense and other aspects of his deep experience as a successful photojournalist as well as a photo agency founder, long bent on using technology to aid honest story telling.

The interview will be one of the first to go out on Talbot’s Fox, very soon after our podcast launch, and we’ll be posting a raft of reference material to accompany the podcast but for the moment, check out some of the archive of multimedia storytelling here, which Aurora produced for the Washington Post.