Photo journalist and Magnum co-founder Robert Capa famously said, ‘If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough’. He may have meant close enough physically to the subject (my interpretation), or perhaps psychologically, or engaged sufficiently in the story. In his novel Blind Woman’s Buff, Reinhard Tenberg uses a different formulation: ‘You know, Jen, if your pictures aren’t close enough, you’re not good enough.’ Has Tenberg simply misquoted or is this deliberate as a way of changing the emphasis? I suspect the latter: the ‘you’ subtly puts the onus more directly on the personal abilities of the photographer as a professional he/she is not good enough.