On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a rolling paper.
By “these men” she meant the seasoned professionals inside the conference room – Shekhar Gupta of the Print, Rajdeep Sardesai of India Today, ace photographer Raghu Rai, Press Club of India president Umakant Lakhera, and Working News Cameramen’s Association chief SN Sinha, among others. All panellists for a discussion tersely titled “Photojournalism: Challenges and Opportunities”.
