Joe McNally has been working as a photographer for 35 years, traveling around the world for National Geographic and photographing daily life, famous people, and events like the Olympics in Brazil. He emphasized that photography is about relationships and storytelling, showing glimpses of people's lives and the world to others. At an event, McNally gave a presentation on his work, held a photography demonstration with volunteers, and encouraged Mexican photographers, saying their field is growing and they represent the future of photography.

1. JOE MCNALLY
“THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT” 2016
By Mariana Alejandra
Peláez Díaz Group:0802

2. ABOUT MCNALLY
Joe McNally said that he has been working on photography for
35 years, he showed us those 35 five years in his photos since
he bought his first camera on 1972.
He said he has been working for National Geographic, but that
demanded him a tremendous amount of responsibility because
he could not fail to the magazine. They rely in the
photographers because they tell visually what is going on
around the world.

4. He said he has traveled to a lot of countries like Brazil, Africa,
Ireland or Milan to photograph daily life, fashion models,
famous actors, athletes.
Recently he went to Brazil for the Olympic games to take
pictures o the athletes and the daily life of the Brazilians.

6. THE PHOTOGRAPHY
He said that the rule of photographers was that their photos
were their footsteps, they marked their path through life, the
photographer creates history. They showed the world, their
world, to other people.
McNally said that the photography was not just flashes and
lenses, it was a relationship. He said that is needed to know the
person that you were photographing even just a little bit, a
photographer needs a team work, it’s a business of
relationship. And he showed us this on a photo he took 15
years ago about fire man`s work, he said he was still in touch
with some of those men.

7. Photo of Brazil´s
Olimpic Games
From:http://port
folio.joemcnally.c
om/

8. PHOTOSHOT
After the presentation of his photos they did a photography live
on stage, so he asked people to came on stage to be
photographed. One of the favorites was a guy who was
photogenic, always doing new funny poses. In this photoshot,
he was telling us some advices so we could apply them on our
photos related to the lights, the lenses, and the exposition
time.

9. Joe
McNally´s
photoshot

10. JOE MCNALLY & MEXICAN
PHOTGRAPHERS
In the last part of McNally`s conference, there was a space of
Q&A. My favorite question was that if he could tell us what he
thought about Mexico`s photography field nowadays. Some
important points of Joe`s answer at this question were:
He said he had been doing a lot of Works in Mexico, specially
in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende
He was always impressed for the amount of energy, creativity
and good will of the Mexican photographers
He thought that the photography community in Mexico was
growing
He said he was not the future, we are!

11. From:http:/
/portfolio.jo
emcnally.co
m/

12. Mcnally said he
made the imposible
to make this
bulldog “smile” 
From:http://portfol
io.joemcnally.com/