Dominic

How important is it, do you think, that they are black and white?

It's the black and white images that seem to linger in the mind, isn't it?

I mean, that's it.

Everyone else is in black.

Can I just ask you a quick question before we move on to the next revolution?

So, the tension between black and white and colour and photography...

By and large, why is it that a photographer now would choose black and white?

Because so many of the photographs that we're going to be looking at are black and white, and they're taken in an age when colour was possible.

So why do photographers, what's that choice as a photographer?

No, of course.

hard news which is fundamentally what a lot of this is yeah um there's there's no mark there's no market for it okay one another question which has never occurred to me before until you were just talking so someone like abbas who goes to iran to do these photos or indeed the people who go to vietnam or whatever

They're never doing this really with a book in mind, particularly.

They're thinking about short-term clients, as in, I will sell these to the Time magazine or the Washington Post or whoever.

That's the plan.

And if the book does come of that, that's an accident that comes later.

But the point is the short-term transaction.

So it becomes a sort of passion project as much as anything.

And almost probably quite addictive that you seek out another conflict.

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