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Part 2 Ida C. Benedetto Addis Ababa University Jan 28, 2010
Photo Edi)ng
Photo edi)ng is the cra1 of selec)ng either one photograph for a story or grouping a series of photographs to work together. Photo edi)ng is as important to good visual storytelling as shoo)ng pictures.
Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 Mary Panzer & Chris)an Caujolle
Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 Mary Panzer & Chris)an Caujolle
Words & Pictures
Photographers o1en debate what words can and can’t do for photographs and vice versa. Cap)ons should add to the photograph rather than simply repeat it in words. Cap)ons are only one way words and images work together.
Women sort coffee beans for roas)ng. Vilma, right, had le1 the guerrilla army to find safety in Mexico when she became pregnant with Maria, leaning over her shoulder in the picture. Vilma’s lover died in combat shortly a1erward.
Late one night, Martha lay in pain with a stab wound in her Leg in the emergency room of a Philadelphia hospital. She said, “He didn’t mean it. You have to believe that the person you love wouldn’t intentionally do this kind of thing.” 1987
The Bowery in two inadequate descrip4ve systems, Martha Rosler, 1974–75
“The Bowery, in New York, is an archetypal skid row. It has been much photographed, in works veering between outraged moral sensi)vity and sheer slumming spectacle. Why is the Bowery so magne)c to documentarians? It is no longer possible to evoke the camouflaging impulses to “help” drunks and down-‐and-‐outers or “expose” their dangerous existence.”
Installa)on view.
Rich and Poor Jim Goldberg, 1985
Print is Dead
Well, maybe not, but some)mes it’s fun to pretend. Here are three projects that present photos differently.
In Silence Susan Meiselas with Human Rights Watch, 2009
“Each year half a million women around the world die in childbirth. Twenty percent of those deaths are in India. Most of the deaths are preventable with access to proper healthcare.”
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/silent-maternal-mortality-india
Abul Thona Baraka Eric Godesman and Hope For Children, Ethiopia -‐ 2006
“I have often seen images from these projects that undercut the good intentions of the projects’ initiators by falling back into the old stereotypes and power dynamics that the collaborative process intends to avoid. There are questions like: Who is editing this material? Where is it being shown? For what purpose? ”
http://www.ericgottesman.net/abulthonabaraka/abulthonabaraka1.html
The Whale Hunt Jonathan Harris,2007
“I documented the en)re experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs... The photographs were taken at five-‐minute intervals, even while sleeping… establishing a constant 'photographic heartbeat'. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would … mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.”
hdp://thewhalehunt.org
http://thewhalehunt.org
Visual Poli)cs & Ethics
Who can see what and how?
Why do certain images come to mind around certain people and issues?
What do we consider acceptable behavior for making journalis)c photographs?
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters Jan Grarup /Noor Images
Port au Prince Hai) -‐ Tuesday 19. In the central part of the capital loo)ng is gelng worse. Desperate people roob all the stores and warehouses they can get close to. Police try maintain law and order but can not control the increasing crows. 15 year old Fabienne lies dead on the roof of a building shoot in the head by Police while loo)ng a warehouse. she stole some frames with pictures of flowers. (cap)on from Noor Images)
Was her body moved?
Chris Hondros/Gedy Images US Soldier
Samar Hassan screams moments a1er her parents Were killed when American soldiers fired on their car as they were driving home January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. Samar and four siblings survived the accidental shoo)ng, though her brother Racan was seriously wounded and later would be flown to the U.S. for treatment. 2006 (Cap)on from World Press Photo)
Beginning in 2004, accounts of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including Torture, rape, sodomy, and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to public aden)on. These acts were commided by personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States Army together with addi)onal US governmental Agencies. Source: Wikipedia
Embedded Photography Personal Snapshots
Anthony Suau
ARBAYA, GONDOR, ETHIOPIA -‐ September 1983: World Vision, a chris)an relief organiza)on delivers food by small plane to a remote region of Ethiopia's Gondor province. A famine begins in Northern Ethiopia at this )me that will eventually kill as many as 1 million people within the next 12 months due to drought and civil war.
Aizo(s)h!
Ira Glass on Storytelling – taste, talent and how long it takes to get good.
hdp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-‐hidvElQ0xE
