Unite for Sight - April 17, 2011 Yale University
Telling the Story: Documentary Photography for NGOs
Documentary Photography
What is photography?
Photography is reacting to what you
see and organizing it into a frame.
Elliot Erwitt - Magnum Stories; Pg. 138
We’re responsible for EVERYTHING in the frame.
The Frame.
Placement of the subject
Eleanor, Chicago, 1949 © Harry Callahan
© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
The Rule of Thirds …
Our next choice is where to put the horizon?
What is this photograph about ?
The Earth or the sky?
Ansel Adams. Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942
© 1982 by William Albert Allard from Vanishing Breed, published by the New York Graphic Society Books
© Joseph Koudelka/Magnum Photos
Pay special attention to the edges of the frame.
© Alex Webb, Magnum Photos
Light.
The Blue Sixty:The sixty-minutes after the sun has gone over the horizon.
• Holding the camera• Approaching people• Working with interpreters• Ethics
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