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...

  Esther Aquino History of Photojournalism Working in Digital Age                 The digital photographic technology or process that I have researched is the Wi-Fi enabled DSLRS. I chose this because there are so many perks to having this specific camera. With this specific camera includes Wi-Fi. In other words, as stated “when you use this camera you are able to transfer photos wirelessly from a digital camera to a Web site or your computer.” So whether you’re inside or out, or dong anything at all, you can simply transfer your pictures from your camera to your computer or even your phone. Another perk about this camera is the fact that it is so convenient. As stated in the video by Professor Nordell on “Working in the Digital Age Part 1”   he mentions the fact that with the digital cameras, you have the opportunity to take multiple amount of pictures within your memory card. And if you do run out of...

Photo by: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Image Source: http://100photos.time.com/photos/wilhelm-conrad-rontgen-first-x-ray Year Created: 1895 QUALITY OF LIGHT      The photographer uses the quality of light to make it very dramatic. In other words, he has the end to be very darkened while underneath the hand it is seen way lighter, thus causes our eyes to focus more on the hand itself. RULE OF THIRDS      Rontgen uses the rule of thirds here by causing our eyes to focus on the little dark ball on the hand. I would say on the top right corner. He could’ve taken the picture from a different perspective. However having it this way made our eyes look towards the direction with the darken ball spot. CONTRAST      I do believe Rontgen didn’t mean to make it look this way. It was more of how it naturally took its course within the picture itself. He has more of a low contrast within the lights and the darks. Having it this way really puts...

      1.  In this picture includes a big body of water. With trees and bushes. On top of having rocks around. Also a beautiful view of the blue sky and some light shining through the middle.     2. In this photo it is a moment of tranquility, Such soothing and calming vibes. You could tell even if you weren’t here at that time it was taken. Because from just looking at the water you can see how still it is. There no currents whatsoever. It was also very quiet.     3. This photo was taken on September 13, 2020 on a Saturday morning.     4. This photo was taken in Hartford, Connecticut at a reservoir.     5. This photo was taken because It was the best moment I have ever experienced. Ive never been in a place like this. Nor have I felt this tranquil in a place so clean and soothing. Like I was in a different world. Especially surrounded by nature.      The photographic technology that I chose was the Leica 35mm cam...

            Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ZUMA Press/Corbis     Image Source :  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/nov/28/the-20-photographs-of-the-week          This photograph has a profound affect on my life because it has changed my perspective on things and what I should value. This picture is a young girl who works in a plastic recycling factory in Dhaka Bangladesh. This image made me realize that there are other people in this world even younger ones who struggle everyday just to have food in their stomachs and a roof over their head. While other people are living their life and have everything they could ever want. This made me feel so much emotion because it taught me to appreciate the little things in life no matter what. It made me realize that materialistic things are not important at all that we should value spiritual and mental things. Because I know for sure that that young ...