Category: Weekly Posts

This week we are wrapping up the course with some ideas related to the future of photojournalism and news images.

This week is about how children are represented in photojournalism, with related stories and ethics considerations.

Photojournalism is typically about what happens in public, but much of life happens out of the public eye. This week is about what makes personal spaces and issues newsworthy for visual documentation.

This week is about contemplating the ethics and justifications for images of death in photojournalism.

This week is about wildlife and the environment, and photographing the natural world in ways that most people never get to see with their own eyes.

This week is about portraits in photojournalism.

This week is about social and technological influences on depictions of race in U.S. photojournalism, with a focus on the 1960s Civil Rights movement and today.

This week is about photographing protests and demonstrations, which happen in many different places for many different reasons. But nearly all protests allow us to see conflict, which makes protest photos powerful.

This week is about the “Golden Age of Photojournalism” in the United States and how innovations in visual narratives still influence visual culture today.

This week we’re at what’s sometimes called the “colonial lens” and the ways photography is related to global and cultural power structures.