Photojournalism Blog

  What Motivates Me and Photojournalists? This is a photo of Stacy Pearsall featured in Upcountry History Museum   Learning about Stacy Pearsall and how she was injured during the conflict was sad but inspiring. While she recovered, she created The Veterans Portrait Project . This is motivating because even though she was hurt she did not give up but continued to take pictures. I find stories like hers motivational, people who experience setbacks but pick themselves up and keep moving forward. Especially in Stacy Pearsall's case as she not only helped herself but helped shine a light on others' hardships as well.  In “ A Pasion For Photography” by Robert Long, Jocelyne Benzakin talks about photographer Gilles Peress and how his images are “journalism but it’s also art” and how W. Eugene Smith’s photojournalism is “More Than Just Pictures,” these photojournalists' work brings more to the world than a simple image. I find this motivational that you can relay so much throu...

Photo Created using AI, by Leonardo.AI   The Image Prompts : The image of power around hunger, poverty, and control. What AI was used and the creation date: Co-created with Leonardo AI, 11/4/2024 A hyperlink to your AI result s: https://app.leonardo.ai/image-generation When generating the AI  picture, I reviewed every classmate's posts. Many felt the same overall feeling as they showed human conflict, suffering, and the resulting agony. However, even with those feelings, some had hope despite the despair; Fabian Lugo had a picture of children playing on an artillery gun. The stark contrast between the children playing and the purpose of the gun makes this picture stand out to me. Jameson Beaty featured an image of 9/11 with a man falling from one of the towers; this intenseness of seeing a person fall to their death is impactful.  It makes you pause and reflect on the circumstances to caused such a tragedy. The image Frances Arnold posted took me by surprise; without ...

" Going Home ", Photo by Ed Clark  B:  I see a man playing an accordion, he appears to be in a military uniform and at some social gathering that may be a funeral. It appears that he is crying as he plays, and the people in the background look upset. Also, I think he may be a naval officer, as his uniform resembles what sailors wear with an anchor on his hat. This image means to me mourning a death, a somber celebration. In the blog “ A Struggle For Democracy Part 1” by Shahidual Alam speaks about how photos can capture “personal stories”. Alam explains that images can be a documentation of “socio-political phenomenon.” History might not tell how much people care about the death of someone, but a photo can capture it. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was beloved. This photo tells me that this is something I did not learn in history class, I learned about what Roosevelt did for his country as President but not how the people felt about him. C: Looking at “Going Home,” I feel t...

   Steve McCurry's vibrant and brilliant photographs are featured below. Showing them highlights his magnificent work – it is not to claim they have been altered in anyway. "Shaolin Monks Training" by Steve McCurry . Displayed at the Cavalier Gallery in Greenwich, CT.                    Steve McCurry was featured in Time Magazine in 2016; Steve McCurry: I’m a Visual Storyteller, not a Photojournalist by Olivier Laurent . McCurry is a well-known and respected photojournalist with a forty-year career who has received awards and had many of his photos praised (Laurent). However, in 2016, some of his images were questioned regarding being altered in Photoshop (Laurent). As more and more people questioned his work, he responded with, “ I’ve always let my pictures do the talking, but now I understand that people want me to describe the category into which I would put myself, and so I would say that today I am a visual storytell...