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Author: Antoine Boj
Photo Credit: Léo Papin
Working in radio, i.e. the only medium that is fundamentally not visual, provides a daily reminder that images are everywhere. I didn't have to work in this field to notice and accept that. I'm not even sure that I have a problem with it, I'm simply struck by its significance, its omnipresence, by how unavoidable it is in the daily life of a team whose job, in essence, is to work with sound.
And it’s not even that bad. When radio exposes itself in pictures, videos, on Youtube and social media, it doesn't tend to put on a show. Watching a live video of Marina Rollman's spot on France Inter's "La Bande Originale" radio show is frankly no different than listening in replay. Scrolling through your Instagram feed and coming across a photo of the Radio Nova host David Blot and his Nova Club guest is more often than not purely informative. In both examples, there's very little to no staging involved.
It's as if this medium, aware of its vulnerability in a world of communication in which the image reigns supreme, deigned to conform to the requisite practices, but without going too far, mind...
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