My take on photojournalism

Believe it or not photojournalism consist of many ethical topics that could portray a lot of controversy, especially with todays media and and photojournalism today. A perfect example would be this famous photo taken by Sally Mann titled “White Skates” taken in 1990. These photos showed intimate pictures of her children, that were naked. The problem with this photo is the fact that it could be portrayed in so many different ways based on a each persons perspective. You’d get criticism on this image questioning it too look like its portraying pornography, fine arts, objectification, or even anything else different. This goes to show that “we have to second guess our art or documentary projects as others could find them, sick, disturbing or vulgar.” In other words, we really have to think about how photojournalists really have be specific and detailed and smart when taking certain pictures. Because anything could literally mean anything to anyone. https://expertphotography.com/controve...

      Eloisa Lopez      A Filipino freelance photographer based in Manila, Philippines. Majority of her work specializes on crime, human rights, women and children issues.      She started documenting at the Filipino Catholic Faith. She graduated from De La Salle University eventually working as a photo correspondent for the Philippines.      During the time President Rodrigo Duterte won the election and declared war on drugs, she had the idea of documenting this as a project of her own. Until her work was seen and heard from reporters online. She then continues her work through a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Since then she continued capturing humans rights and issues in the Philippines. Her work also appeared on the New York Reviews of Books, TIME. Her work was also exhibited in the WARM festival in Sarajevo, Prix-Bayeux Calvados in Bayeux, and a club in Bangkok.      President Rodri...

       Within this project I wanted to focus on the topic of racism in general. To me this is very important because this tragic problem has been going on for years. I wanted to focus on specific time periods from generations ago up until today. I wanted to portray the fact that it has been this long and still noting has changed. Till this day black people are struggling to survive every day.      In order for me to have created this idea, I decided to use the symbol of the fist. The symbol of the fist represents unity and power within the people and the community. Coming together and uniting as one. I then took some famous photographs back in the day which are mostly located towards the bottom, specifically the black and whites. Eventually the pictures spread upwards with photographs you may have seen today and relate to what is going on now, representing with colors of course. Lastly I had wanted it to pop out more using the stripes representing sort...