Women Photojournalists

 

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) Award (Kristine).

Her voice reached far and wide to gain attention and support for humanitarian causes. Beyond her photojournalistic success, she is now working on raising awareness as a speaker where her TEDX talk “Photos That Bear Witness to Modern Slavery,” where she speaks about her experience as a photojournalist and what she has seen firsthand. Lisa Kristine has had her TedX Talk and her photos viewed by millions, and the stories she shares about people around the world still enslaved and the hope to bring awareness to this humanitarian issue.

The article “Why I Free Slaves – Photographer Lisa Kristine” features on the website Free The Slaves. Net, they spoke about Lisa Kristine’s time in Nepal. She shares a story about her time in Nepal, where she witnessed men, women, and children carrying bricks in unbearable heat with no food or water, working 16 hours a day (Why I Free Slaves). 

by Lisa Kristine

Another time, she was in Ghana at Gold Mind, where women worked while carrying their infants in conditions that exposed them to toxic chemicals (Kristine).


 

by Lisa Kristine 

 Many photojournalists faced trials of the elements around them to get good images to share the stories of the suffering people. Photojournalist Lynsey Addario stated in her video,

"Stories Iresearch over a long period of time, and I figure out how to approach thesubject and get access. That is not something that is easy it is establishingrelationship most of photojournalists are not about photography butestablishing relationships."

I believe this empathy and understanding can be an asset to getting the right shot. Often, the photographer's perspective can create an amazing shot; no two people see things the same way; therefore, their approach through the lens will also be different. This difference of perspective also happens between men and women; Photojournalist Natalie Keyssar, in her interview, explained,

 "Women photojournalists are not male photojournalist plus risk of gender violence. We have a different perspective, we are women photojournalists, we are not special, we are not less than, we are not weaker...", she also adds " It robs everyone, including white men, of the ability to understand other perspectives. In such a terribly polarized country as we're in today, lack of empathy is a violent, destructive force that's reinforced by a homogeneity of perspective" (Photo District News Links).


Women photojournalists face obstacles in their profession: bias, racial and gender issues. TheAuthority collective is a group trying to assist these artists in reaching their goals and fighting against these barriers. However, the media industry is not the only area where women have had obstacles to stand in the way of their professions. According to "Women are advancing in the workplace, but women of color still lagbehind" Adia Harvey Wingfield discusses Margaret Chin, a sociologist study of women of color in the workplace. Chin explained that women of color experience "racialized and gendered forms of sexual harassment" along with stereotypical assumptions (Wingfield). According to Chin's study, Wingfield's article explains that these occurrences often make these groups underrepresented in more advanced positions in business, law, medicine, and academic employment. 

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