What is photojournalism to me? I would say it’s the power to capture an event, or emotion in a picture that helps make people aware, or interested in a specific topic. The history of photojournalism comes from all over. All the way from the end of slavery to something as recent as 9/11. These pieces of history make people get even a glimpse of how impacted society was by these events. You can’t just write about it you need to physically capture it.
Photos and videos are the best way to do this. In the video created by Professor Nordell What is Photojournalism? He states, “divide the word into two words photo and journalism”. The reason I like this quote is because you’re not just putting up random photos you’re documenting words through pictures and then more. You’re not just taking random pictures of anything you need to capture specific moments in time of importance.
Photojournalists are the reason even the scariest moments in time are able to be relayed back to us. In the video In Harm’s Way A man is seeing speaking to a woman photojournalist saying, “I don’t think any picture is worth your life”. For me that was so powerful because she was going to risk being in the midst of a war and kidnapped in Gaza to show the world pieces of information they needed to see, and to be educated on. That is the more extreme side but you even have small town sadness in which a small-town photojournalist named Jason from the video Jason Henske-Photojournalist states “When I photograph a young man graduating celebrating his achievement, and then two years later photograph his coffin coming home from Iraq” showing that it’s hard to separate personal from business because he knows more of the people he’s taking these pictures for. Still capturing touching moments that can face hardship.
Photojournalism has no boundaries. It is not only art and expression, but news as well. It carries emotions, and information for education along with a story to tell. It is somebody’s life, and future, while also being their past. Photojournalism is the reason children who never experienced 9/11 can feel the same emotions as somebody who may have been a block away from the crashing building. It provides a source to tell a story other than in words.
I've attached the following pictures due to their extreme capture on historical and emotional concepts
Photo By: STR New/ Reuters
Image Source: https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Taliban-justifies-911-attacks-based-on-US-interventionist-policies-600967
Photo By: Steve Schapiro/ Corbis via Getty images
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