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<\/a>Even though Grant, who will be speaking at UVic on Saturday, has been around long enough to be known as the father of Canadian photojournalism, as the industry advanced, so did he. Transitioning from the dark room to digital was easy for Grant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI took to digital right away,\u201d he says. \u201cWith film you could miss the shot changing rolls, but with digital you can shoot 2,000 or 3,000 pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Grant, photography assignments have changed, and so have photographers. Mainly, there are not as many assignments for them to get anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow anyone who owns an iPhone can hold it up, go click, click, click, and send it in,\u201d he says. \u201cWith the economy what it is, the rags get this stuff for free and it\u2019s putting good photographers out of work because they arrive at the news after it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
This new reality for photographers is a lot different than how things were in Grant\u2019s day. Dan Doherty, who has taught photography classes at Camosun, suggests industry standards have lowered compared.<\/p>\n
\u201cA photojournalist like Grant used an artist\u2019s eye, foresight and planning, and a certain amount of luck,\u201d says Doherty. \u201cWith something like the Vancouver riots, are those shots iconic due to a luck shot or the eye of an experienced journalist? Even copyright laws have changed to reflect these trends. I\u2019m all for radical democracy and still have to make a living, but all this free photography might lead to an overall enrichment of society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant says that one way things have changed is that he used to be sent out on weekly assignments to chase down a story, often on just a thin thread of an idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be told, \u2018They\u2019re doing something in wood out there in British Columbia, go out there and find out what,\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
And the best way to find out what that \u201cwhat\u201d is? According to Grant, it\u2019s simple.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust start at the beginning,\u201d he says, \u201cand shoot your way through until it\u2019s all over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Which is exactly how he got that famous shot of Trudeau.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was leaving the Chateau Laurier hotel,\u201d Grant remembers. \u201cAll the other media had gone outside to wait by his car. I\u2019m still inside and starting down the stairs ahead of him. I heard people begin to laugh, I turned around, the camera went up and, click. A quick focus, a click\u2014I got two more frames in and he was on top of me,\u201d he says with a chuckle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe media were all pressed up against the glass trying to get back in but couldn\u2019t because the doors opened outwards,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut it wouldn\u2019t have made any difference. Trudeau never did anything like that twice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Silent Observer: A Talk with Ted Grant
\nSaturday, March 10, 2 pm
\nMacPherson Library A003, University of Victoria
\nmaltpub@finearts.uvic.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Legendary Canadian photographer Ted Grant will tell you he\u2019s had a roving eye for most of his life. And even though the years are adding up, he\u2019s still got it. His iconic photos, like his stories, span decades of history, which he retells in characteristic, snapshot-like sentences. \u201cI always had some kind of feeling for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}