Speaking of Photography...

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 9

Speaking of Photography...

WHRyY do people take photographs? ‘ Your common or garden week-end snap-shotter with his box camera probably takes them simply to put some-thing-an event, a view, a family group -on record, in the opinion of Greig and, Joyce Royle, two Wellington photographers. Others, the ones who love photography for its own sake, try to create something, to express a vaguelyformed idea or emotion in a tangible form. These are the true artists of the camera. Then of course there is the professional photographer who does it for money, and whose main object is often nothing more than a desire to please the customer. Yet whatever their aim or object, most of the thousands of camera enthusiasts throughout New Zealand think that taking photographs is a wonderful and fascinating hobby, and Greig and Joyce Royle (whose por-

traits appear on page 25) are going to talk about that hobby in a series of five talks to be heard from 2YA on Sunday afternoons, start-. "ine at 4.30 p.m. on

Sunday, February 27. These talks are something in the nature of an experiment, and are discussions rather than monologues. . Greig and Joyce Royle get together before the microphone with a few suggested lines of dialogue before »them, and then away they go, , talking, arguing, laughing, joking, but all the time about photography, which has been for them a life-long study. "The Beginner and his Camera," "The Story, of a Photograph," "Happier Snaps," and "Photography as a Hobby" are the titles of some of these Sunday afternoon sessions.