East-West Photo, Helsinki. Contact en Confrontatie Integratie en Integriteit

Report on a symposium entitled East-West Photo organised by the
University of Industrial Arts Helsinki. David Faddy, Polytechnic
of London, claims that committed photography doesn't change
anything and that photography is a 'trivializing process
simplyfying the world' and can only be a personal statement.
Israeli photographer and picture-editor David Rubinger lectured
on the 'assumed objectivity of (press) photography', and
mentioned a campaign against photojournalism in Israel 'The
nation against the hostile press'. Anatoli Bogolomov, Novosti
Press, lectured on the new possibilities of the new Russian
photojournalism. The most remarkable contributions came from
Arnold Drapkin and Felix Rosenthal - Drapkin, Moscow based Time
photojournalist, on the really new photojournalism in Russia,
and Drapkin, a Russian active for Time in Moscow, on
self-censorship in Russian press photography.