Chapter End
In my introduction I stated that photojournalism is a story through a photo. Through out this semester I learned about different photojournalists and their challenges through life. Regardless of life's challenges they became who they are today, and that is truly inspirational. It's important to know photojournalism's history because we should know the struggles and challenges they had to face in order to publish a story so that our mom's and dad's or grandparents could read about it in the paper.
As far as an "ah ha" moment I really didn't have one. I learned a lot of different techniques and ways to define photo's but nothing that really stood out to me.
Do photographs change the world?
Yes they certainly do, their has been many photographs this semester that really brought emotion and meaning. The photograph of the father holding his dead son in Vietnam by Faas, to the famous photograph by Franklin of FDNY's firefighters raising the American Flag during 9/11.
and now you can submit a photo via bluetooth, or email straight from your camera, or even saved to an SD card
Another photojournalist I feel i have to mention is Dith Pran, Devonte wrote that Dith Pran once said "Part of my life is saving life.” that to me is such a strong and powerful quote.
All those images I posted from different photojournalists really changed the way I tought, I never pictured photojournalists getting into such danger or the ethical dilemmas they faced. The picture above with the man on fire, as a nursing student I would've ran to help the man. If he still is alive he probably has major burns throughout his body. I really learned a lot from these artists and when I take photo's in the future I will certainly be thinking of how to take them in a photojournalistic way.
my photo
photo by Michael Bartolo
Last week my grandmother was taken by ambulance to the hospital, I took this photo because it saddened me to see her that way, but then this week I wanted to use this photo because I couldn't make it any events to take photos and I knew that this photo meant a lot. To me it evokes such great emotions and I added a filter to make it darker and it just added a certain touch to my photo.
Imagine having to develop film or run to your editor to submit photo's.
and now you can submit a photo via bluetooth, or email straight from your camera, or even saved to an SD card
I never really thought of the problems they could've faced when being on assignment. I also didn't realize the dangers they put themselves through in order to get those images to us.
This photo is of Lynsey Addario, taken in Libya risking her life to capture photo's of the ongoing war in 2011
After viewing the images from various artists this semester my inspiration came while waiting in the Emergency room pod at Mercy with my grandmother, I then toyed around with the photo effects and created the darkened image which brings sadness to an already sad photo.
Things I learned:
James mentioned that "James Nachtwey, taught himself how to be a photojournalist and the art of photography." I found it interesting that such a famous photographer actually taught himself and didn't go to school to become one.
photo by James Nachtwey
photo by Dith Pran
Brian mentioned another photojournalists who caught my eye Kevin Carter. Brian mentioned that Carter wanted to "expose a raw world" and indeed he did with one of his photo's that not only startled me but made me think of the danger's out there that we as American citizens are kept safe from
photo by Kevin Carter
