Photojournalism Blog

  Humanitarian Photographer Lisa Kristine Image of Lisa Kristine - Photo by Eric Jordan Lisa Kristine is a photojournalist passionate about shedding light on the suffering of Indigenous people. Over her thirty-year career, she has created provoking and provocative photos that moved public opinion with their story of the suffering of her subjects. By sharing their story through her photography, she can ignite change for these people. Lisa Kristine explains her perspective with her photography by saying. “ I believe that a sound work of art should be captivating each time it is viewed. A viewer from any location or walk of life can directly relate to the subject of my images. Often, people tell me they have been emotionally and viscerally moved, especially by the humanitarian photographs I make ” (Kristine). Lisa Kristine has been awarded the Lucie Humanitarian Award, Photographic Society of America’s (PSA), and the Prestigious International Understanding Through Photography (IUTP) A...

My narrated video for my midterm contemporary photojournalism issue project creates a visual storytelling accompanying my narrative around climate change. I utilize images of photojournalists' environmental reporting to tell a story from my perspective of climate issues. Emphasizing the impact on our environment and connecting the valuable resource of water to the results of the climate disasters and resulting issues for communities. Some of the problems highlighted in the video are the damage of oil spills in the ocean, the result of drought and rising temperatures, and how they impact the weather, resulting in more climate issues. Water is my overall theme; my thought process represents this valuable resource and how global warming impacts it. I present my contemporary photojournalist project with Photojournalism images of water in the air, on land, and in the sea. My video mentioned an inspiring quote from an article by Axelle Rescourio, The Role of Photojournalism in Envi...