2. What is Photo Journalism
• The objective of a photojournalist is to be a visual
storyteller. By photographing and editing images in
a way that the media wouldn’t be able to.
Photojournalists work locally or travel abroad to
document current events, some even go into active
war zones to get the uncut and unedited take on the
war.
3. Use of images
• The pictures that are taken by photojournalists
would most likely end up in newspapers and would
be used by tv news outlets who would pay the
photographer, without having to send anyone from
their company out to these places. These images are
sometimes shocking due to their raw nature.
4. Photojournalists
• Some of the most famous photojournalists are: Don
McCullin, Robert Capa, Eddie Adams, Steve
McCurry, Kevin Carter and Dorothea Lange. All of
these photographers took images that captured the
minds of the public and their images are still being
remember and used
5. Past examples
• This is the classic image used to
describe the Vietnam war,
civilian casualties with the
American forces in the
background not doing anything
to help. This is image was also
censored and never released on
Tv or in any newspaper
because of the frontal nudity of
the girl in the middle, some say
that the image was never used
to hide the horrors the
Americans have committed in
Vietnam.
‘’The Terror of War’’ - By Nick
Ut (www.also.kottke.org/misc/
images/nick-ut-vietnam.jpg)
6. Present example
• This is an example
of present
photojournalism,
coloured, high
definition image.
Even with the
modern technology
used to take the
picture, it still has
the same impact as
any other one
(www.news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/
images/67490000/jpg/
_67490296_gilbertson-9final_mk.jpg)
7. Photojournalism techniques
• Some of the most important things to think about
while taking photographs with the intended purpose
of photojournalism would be: Timing, the timing
has to be right in order to capture the right moment
and the right emotion from the subject. Exposure,
the longer you leave the shutter open the more light
gets in making the image brighter and showing off
the darkness, if you shut they shutter quickly less
light gets in making the image darker and somewhat
more interesting and sinister.
