photojournalismrushabh gandhi

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism illustrating a news

story through photography.

Started in the 1850s when men started adding photos to newspaper stories.

These photos were added through a process called engraving. Engravings were not actual photos, but interpretations of photos created by an engraver.

Carol Szathmari was the very first photojournalist. During the Crimean War in 1853 to 1856, he took photos which were sent to the royal houses in Europe.In 1880, The Daily Graphic became the first publication to include a picture that was not an engraving. This was the first halftone reproduction of a photograph used for news purposes.

the first photo printed using a halftone was in the Daily Graphic in 1880.

Photojournalism's purpose is to add another dimension to a news story so that the viewer or reader will get a better understanding of the information that is being presented to them.Photojournalism can be found in every form of modern media.Types of photojournalism can be found in newspapers, magazines, websites and on TV news.

Rushabh, 22, holding a gun to pose in Dangs, Gujarat

Javeed Khan, 13, holds his weapon as he poses for a photo at the headquarters of a Lashkar to fight against Taliban militants in their area, in Sultanwas village, district, Pakistan

T ime l i n e s s the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events.

Ob j e c t i v i t y the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both

content and tone.Na r r a t i v e

the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level.

HOW DOES PHOTOJOURNALISM AFFECT THE WORLD?

In 1963, a Buddhist monk in Vietnam decided to burn himself to death while he was meditating in front of a crowd.

A Sudanese child tries crawling to a UN camp over a kilometer away. A vulture waits for her to die so it can eat her. This photo became popular practically overnight. The photographer won a Pulitzer prize

A missionary goes to Uganda in April, 1980. Everyone already knows about the famine in Africa, but seeing somethinglike this with your own eyes brings you to reality

On June 5, 1989, a Chinese man in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, stood infront of a line of tanks, preventingtheir advance

Steve Ludlum New York Times

The Gujarat riots of 2002, which can either be represented by a list of casualties, which would mean nothing to most people, or a single photograph like the one of Qutubuddin Ansari by Arko Datta.

Sourav Ganguly took off his shirt in public and brandished it in the air to celebrate India's winning of the match.Final Match of NatWest Trophy 2002, Lords Stadium

Photojournalism goes beyond conveying a mood, it inspires people to act.

21-year-old Ajmal Kasab, one of ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai, India on November 26th, 2008 walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station, carrying weapons and duffel bags of ammunition.(AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza)

A look at life in the country . Pakistani men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the compound of radical Lal Masjid or Red mosque as the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, not seen, talks to his supporters during Friday prayers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 17, 2009.

Bangladeshi woman wades through flood waters with some of her belongings from her damaged house.

 

A displaced Pakistani girl looks out from her tent in Shah Mansour refugee camp, in northwest Pakistan,Tuesday, June 9, 2009.

Afghan youth Asad Ullah, 10, talks with Private First Class U.S. soldier, Ryan Hayes, from the 2-1 Infantry, 5th. Stryker Brigades, as he guards a position in a village in the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009.

a photojournalist

In photojournalism, photojournalists are given “unprecedented power and indisputable information about the world in which we all live”

Role of a Photojournalist

photojournalists have to risk their lives to bring news back so that people can be kept informed.To give information regarding events that have transpired in the world. Offer a glimpse of different people, what they do, places and other things through the images. Makes more aware of the society and its status.

Responsibility of a Photojournalist

Photojournalists have the responsibility of bringing in photographs that are objective. Should not manipulate with the images and follow the ethics.

• Isn’t everything we’re looking at real?

• Isn’t everything we’re looking at real?

• What about the angle, or things that were edited out?

• Isn’t everything we’re looking at real?

• What about the angle, or things that were edited out?

• Is this any different from what print journalists do?

• In 1994, Time magazine published this photo on the cover

• In 1994, Time magazine published this photo on the cover

• Except that it didn’t look like this photo

code of ethics

“It is the individual responsibility of every photojournalist at all times to strive for pictures that report truthfully, honestly and objectively.”

“In documentary photojournalism, it is wrong to alter the content of a photograph in any way (electronically or in the darkroom) that deceives the public.”

a picture storyphotojournalist: Charles Omanney

In their last moments in the White House President George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn await the arrival of Barack H. Obama before he is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC.

the indian side of photojournalism

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Photojournalist

Raja Deen Dayal

PhotojournalistHomai Vyarawalla

PhotojournalistRaghu Rai

PhotojournalistSunil Janah

 Ninety six-year-old Homai Vyarawalla, India's first woman photojournalistStriking images of death of Gandhiji and the visits of international dignitaries were stamped on public memoryHer favorite was Pandit Nehru for her picturesShe left photo journalism disgusted and disillusioned with the new face of Indian Photojournalism

Pictures by Homai Vyarawalla

photojournalists in vadodara

a few photojournalists of vadodara

Vipul ManeRanjeet SurveAshwin RajputKirti PadiyaPalak ChoksiDhaivat SutharRahul Jain

the future

Highly dependent on digital workflow systemsIncrease in video journalismSpy Media ServicesIncreased liability on photojournalists with easy modes for manipulations availablePhotoBlogs

the future begins here…..

a 1st grade kid of a Village Sarsawadi, Viramgam, Gujarat is now a local photojournalist

thank you.