Well, I´ve been quite lazy posting stuff on here partly because I have done lots of traveling and there are many exciting projects going on right now that have kept me quite busy. But… today is a special day and so I thought I´d share some thoughts.
Today was my first day as visiting professor at the East China University in Shanghai. I have been teaching for years now but a first day still gives me a bit of stage fright.
I really love teaching. First of all for me personally it´s a really nice balance to creative work and office work and I find it incredibly rewarding to be able to pass on your knowledge and see a completely new generation of photojournalists grow up.
I´m especially happy to be invited to be a professor in China. I mentioned one thought in my welcome speech today: Today´s Chinese photojournalists have a great responsibility – they will be looked at in 50 or 100 years just the same as Americans look at Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans and the many other great photographers that were hired by the FSA in the 1930s. China is seeing change very similar to the United States in this period.
I find it a great privilege to be given the opportunity to help shape the next generation of Chinese photojournalists… Let´s get to work!
