AV News 201 - August 2015
Letters
Below are some of the letters we have received following the announcement
of our retirement as Editors.
We would like to thank everyone for their kind comments and all of our
contributors over the last 7 years. We couldn’t have made the Magazine
what it is today without you.
It was sad to read that you are giving up your positions at AV News. Your not
insubstantial efforts will be sadly missed - you have provided us all with a
great magazine. I can understand how difficult it must be to produce a
magazine that covers AV. The various aspects of the ‘art’ such as
photography, sound, storyline, production techniques etc. are challenging,
each in their own way. The difficulty for you as editors is that you cannot
show the end result, the actual AV sequence, which integrates all of this!!
Instead you can provide your readers with good material discussing AV
developments as well as the various aspects of the ‘art of AV’ in addition to
information regarding the AV scene both in the UK and abroad.
To do this you also require contributions from your readers both written
and pictorial. Since I work alone and there is, and as far as I know, little or no
AV activity in Norway, I am dependent on sources such as AV News to give
me some idea of ‘what it is all about’. Thus I found the contribution by
Margaret Salisbury and Sian Davies in the latest issue commenting on the
Peter Coles IAC International very interesting. It raises a number of issues
regarding the criteria judges use when evaluating AV sequences and making
awards and the use of other peoples’ images/work and the use of video
sequences; all issues worthy of discussion. I hear a very loud cry of despair
in Sian’s last paragraph. I must confess that I too am ‘a single image
photographer’ who also likes to tell a story, using music as my soundtrack.
It will be interesting to see if the article and your comments get a good
discussion going.
You both deserve a medal for your efforts over the past years! I have
enjoyed the contact that I have had with you, and much appreciate the
help/advice you have given me when asked for. I am very grateful to you for
the very fine presentations of my work that you made in the magazine in
connection with my awards for Best Photography at the 2008 and 2012 RPS
Internationals.
Bill Bruce - Norway
Many congratulations on reaching the 200th!
You must feel as if it’s been a bit of a marathon, but it has been worth it,
the magazine has given me a great deal of pleasure and valuable
information ever since I joined the AV group!
I do hope a worthy editorial successor can be found, but you will truly be
a hard act to follow.
Andrew N. Gagg FRPS
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