Photojournalism involves capturing truthful images that tell news stories visually rather than through words. It has several key elements, including timeliness, objectivity, and narrative. There are different branches of photojournalism such as documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography, and celebrity photography. A photojournalist's role is to visually report facts and serve the public through images that show what people are doing and what is happening in an honest, unposed manner. Photojournalists have an ethical responsibility in deciding what images to publish and respecting subjects' privacy.

1. BY:
RANDHIR PRASAD YADAV
Photojournalism

2. Photojournalism• Is about capturing the human experience and making your own art; not just
capturing the creations of others.
• Is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of
news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell
a news story.
• It is telling a story with images and visuals rather than with words.
• It is providing information, while conveying the truth to give insight to the
viewer.

3. Elements of Photojournalism
 Timeliness
 The images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of
events
 Objectivity
 The situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of
the events they depict in both content and tone.
 Narrative
 The images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to
the viewer or reader on a cultural level.

4. Branches of photojournalism
 Documentary Photography
 Usually refers to a popular form
of photography used to chronicle
significant and historical events.
 It is typically covered
in professional photojournalism,
or real life reportage, but it may
also be an amateur, artistic, or
academic pursuit.
 The photographer attempts to
produce truthful, objective, and
usually candid photography of a
particular subject, most often
pictures of people.

5. Branches of photojournalism Social Documentary Photography
 Is the recording of humans in their
natural condition with a camera.
 Often it also refers to a socially
critical genre of photography
dedicated to showing the life of
underprivileged or disadvantaged
people.

6. Branches of photojournalism
 Street Photography
 Is a type of documentary
photography that features
subjects in candid situations
within public places such as
streets, parks, beaches, malls, poli
tical conventions and other
settings.
 often tends to be ironic and can
be distanced from its subject
matter, and often concentrates on
a single human moment, caught
at a decisive or poignant moment.

7. Branches of photojournalism Celebrity Photography
 is a subset of photojournalism.
Its subject matter is celebrities
in the arts, sports and
sometimes politics.
 Some photographers make a
living following actors and
models. When they get a scoop,
many magazines will pay high
fees to run the images.

9. Photojournalist
• A journalist tells stories. A photographer takes pictures of nouns (people,
places and things).A photojournalist takes the best of both and locks it into
the most powerful medium available.
• Photojournalists capture "verbs."They hunt them, shoot them and show
them to their readers.Then, they hunt more.
• A photojournalist has thousands of pairs of eyes looking over his shoulder
constantly and should be answer these key questions:
• What are they doing?
• What do they see?
• What Happened?

10. Photojournalist• A photojournalist is a visual reporter of facts.The public places trust in its
reporters to tell the truth.The same trust is extended to photojournalists as
visual reporters.
• The photojournalist constantly hunts for the images (or verbs), which tell of
the day-to-day struggles and accomplishments of his community.
• These occurrences happen naturally.There is no need to "set up" reality.There
is no need to lie to a community that bestows its trust.
• The photojournalist's concern is his community even if that means sacrificing
comfort or life.

11. Photojournalist
• A photojournalist is a servant (like a waitress or a sanitation worker).They're
expected to be on the job around the clock to serve the public.
• Photojournalists are role models.They don't want to be, but they are.

13. Tips• Try to avoid posed pictures
• Pictures that are arranged or
given a specific post or action
are no better than lying.
• It is impossible to capture
raw, real emotion through
posed pictures.
• Do the words “Stolen shot”
ring a bell?

14. Tips
• Try capture emotion
• Look for expressions that
capture feelings. Either the
subject, background or a
combination of both to make
your picture interesting.
• “The feeling is mutual”

15. Tips• Get faces; not backs
• Focus on your subjects facial
expression, or in short
capture their faces
• There is nothing interesting
about someone’s back in a
picture

16. Tips• Identify the star of the
picture
• Someone in the picture doing
something interesting or that
is not seen everyday. Focus
on what he / she is doing
• Try to highlight it

17. Tips
• Get up close
• Pictures from too far away
loose focus and clarity
• As the song say “I wanna get
close to you”

18. Tips
• Let your picture tell a story
• You should be able to
introduce what is happening
to a picture or a group of
pictures.
• Say “Once upon a time”

19. Tips
• Use different angles
• Take the same picture but
from different angles or use
different setting in you
camera.
• “A trip to Jerusalem would be
nice”

20. Tips
• Don’t Crowd the picture
• Too many people or things in
a picture takes away its value
and focus, be selective
• Stick to one (wink*)

21. Tips
• Action, good; blurry, bad
• Action shots are great only if
you can capture them
perfectly with the camera
you have.
• Blurry pictures are not useful

22. Tips
• Use the Rule ofThirds
• Divide your picture into three
parts and capture your
subject on the first or last
thirds

23. Tips
• Try different things
• Explore because you will
never know what you might
find out

25. Photojournalist Photojournalists have a moral responsibility to decide what pictures to take,
what picture to stage, and what pictures to show the public. A lot of
controversy arises when deciding which photographs are too violent to show
the public.
• Other issues involving photojournalism include the right to privacy and the
compensation of the news subject. The person’s right to privacy is sometimes
not addressed or the picture is printed without their knowledge or consent.

26. Photojournalist Photojournalism affords an opportunity to serve the public that is equalled
by few other vocations and all members of the profession should strive by
example and influence to maintain high standards of ethical conduct.
• It is the individual responsibility of every photojournalist at all times to strive
for pictures that report truthfully, honestly and objectively
• It is the duty of every photojournalist to work to preserve all freedom-of-the-
press rights recognized by law and to work to protect and expand freedom-
of-access to all sources of news and visual information

27. A picture is worth a thousand words
so just keep on shooting and let the
pictures do the talking 
RP Yadav
ISBAT University , Kampala, UG