Instructive quotes on critiquing photos

These quotes are from Richard Zakia's book entitled Perception & Imaging.

- The act of critiquing or passing judgment on a photograph involves evaluation, and for the evaluation to be fair and reasonable there must be some type of criteria or purpose.
- Remarks such as

I like it

or

It's not interesting

may be based on the critic's unspoken criteria but are of little help to the photographer.
- Critiquing a photograph is a subjective task and more often than not different critics will have different opinions.
-Photographers must accept this variability of response to their pictures, listen to what others have to say, but also believe in themselves and their work.

Note: Zakia is Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technologyand chair of Fine Art Photography and graduate program in Imaging Arts.