Concluding Chapter

During my creative process experiment , I took my photos in black and white and not color. Most of the photojournalists we have spoken on took their pictures in black and white because in their era color didn't exist. As I was taking my pictures, I did them on something that I enjoyed and relaxed, which is summer and the water. Today, I went on a trip to Rhode Island and I knew I was going to by the water. I set my camera in black and white and took different pictures. Most photojournalists takes pictures of something they have  a passion for. Summer is my favorite season and I love being by the water at beaches around the area or just taking walks on boardwalks or around the area. The photos I have taken are on a dock , showing the true beauty of summer and the ocean. When taking this photo I felt like if people viewed it would make them want to experience it themselves. 

Images by: Aaliyah Wright

When I think of Photojournalism I still feel the same way, nothing has changed. Photojournalism is a career where a person takes images in different kind of ways to tell a news story. Most images have a meaning to it, and some of them you may not get right away, you will have to look deeply into the image. I still feel the same way about Photojournalism as I did before. Only thing different is that I am more positive about photojournalists. At first I thought they were just taking pictures just for the fun of it and really didn’t have a passion for what they did. As I read more into photojournalists they love what they do and some of them would like to change the community, world in some way. For example, with the person I did my photojournalist profile on James Van Der Zee, he wanted to show the beauty of African Americans in different ways. The history of photojournalism is important because it tells us about the past life before we were born. It lets us know the important issues that aren’t addressed now. I really wouldn’t say that I had any big “Ah ha” moments, but there are moments that I enjoyed. For instance learning the different reasons that motivate photojournalists and making our personal motivation maps. It let me personally compare my life to photojournalists. The question, do photographs change the world? I would say yes depending on what type of photos you are looking at. James Van Der Zee photographs interested me the most because they are African American photos which are my culture and then they were different variety of photos that make people happy. 

Image by: James Van Der Zee

Looking through my classmates work I learned a lot of history about different photojournalists. Each person did a good job of explaining their photojournalist in a great way. One thing that caught my attention very well was when Alejandra asked “How did Zoriah images impacted society?” I liked the answer when it was stated that the society should know that issues still exist and it impacts everything around us.

Photo by: Zoriah

This photo shows how somewhere in a different country this women is suffering from malnutrition and these people need as much help as they can get.

Another thing that my classmate Patrick mentioned was how Steve McCurry likes to get to know his subjects. Patrick feels that Steve has a great sense of trust and people trust him as well, which a great quality for a photographer.

Photo by: Steve McCurry

This photo is of a young women and I feel that she is trusting Steve McCurry to take a photo of her and making her look beautiful.

Last but not least, Kelsy has worked on photographer Michael Kamber, and he covers history of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and other countries. What I liked that Kelsy pointed out is how Kamber said photojournalism is "dead" and its all about winning awards and prizes. I'm glad she pointed this out because when I was going through the course especially at the beginning , I felt like photojournalists only cared about their awards because they got noticed more and more money was coming in.

Photo By: Michael Kamber

During this course I can say I have learned a lot more than what I knew before. From learning about the history of women, to technology, and techniques, I really enjoyed it. My favorite part was definitely the technology and creating the timeline, it made us look deeper into photography and how the photojournalists go about creating their images. I think its great for people to know the history of photojournalism because it makes us expand our knowledge. Each task we did I learned something new.

Final project

Below is a Obituary Layout for my photojournalist Profile

James Van Der by Aaliyah Wright

References

 Bianco, D., & "James VanDer Zee." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. (1994). VanDerZee, 

James 1886–1983. Retrieved June 21, 2016, from http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/James_Augustus_VanDerZee.aspx

 James Van Der Zee. (n.d.). Retrieved June 21, 2016, from http://www.biography.com/people/james-van-der-zee-9515411

 Van Der Zee, James (1886-1983) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. (n.d.). Retrieved June 21, 2016, from http://www.blackpast.org/aah/van-der-zee-james-1886-1983

 The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). James VanDerZee. Retrieved June 21, 2016, from http://www.britannica.com/biography/James-VanDerZee

 

 

Chapter Nine

When it comes to motivation everyone has their own idea of it, people see things differently. With motivation you should be setting goals for yourself, trying to figure out what you want in life and who you want to be. As you set your mind to certain things people find things to motivate them to achieve it. For instance with me the biggest thing that motivates me is my parents, getting through college my first two years was me what difficult but talking to my parents and knowing  I wanted to make them happy made me motivate myself more. In photojournalism, photojournalists need a lot of motivation because they get judged on certain things like gender, race, and more.

A women who name was Bacani and 28 years old moved to Hong Kong from the Philippines. She came to Hong Kong to help pay for her brothers education by being a maid. Bacani was exposed to photography and took wonderful pictures from the different trips she took around Hong Kong and sceneries of abuse of the domestic workers. The Magnum Foundation gave her the chance to study photography for six weeks in New York with a scholarship. She was happy; she wanted to pursue her passion for photography. A big thing for her was when a lady lent her money to go buy a camera which was a Nikon D90. I’m pretty sure Bacani knew that photography would change her life and if she wanted to help fund her brother, this was the route that she needed to take. Bacani once said “That’s what I want photography to do; to be able to help people… to me photography is a very powerful tool to change someone’s perspective toward an issue.” Bacani motivation is the domestic workers from when she seen them getting abused. She wants to help these workers let the world know what has been going on, and she feels that her photographs can get the word out.  Bacani also stated that “They keep on telling me ..now that they’ve seen me, I made them realize that its possible to do the things that you really want to do outside your job.” Not only does she motivate herself, she motivated others around her. 

Image Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/26/xyza-cruz-bacani-photos-domestic-workers_n_7441412.html

Image By: Bacani

Image Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/06/asia/domestic-worker-photographer/

Another photographer is Lee Miller, her focus was on fashion and the WWII. Miller had a rough childhood she was raped by a family friend and her father took nude photos of her to overcome her fear of being raped. Lee Miller was a model and was a fashion photographer and worked for Vogue. Miller left her husband to be with surrealist Roland Penrose.  Lee had a great passion for photography. It wasn’t clear what her motivation was but I feel it was her education or her father. I feel like it was her father because her father loved photography and he taught her some of the stuff she knew and she wanted to follow behind his footsteps.  She is a very beautiful women and when she seen beauty she took pictures that was in her interest.

Image Source: https://www.chintiandparker.com/blog/a-girls-gaze-lee-miller/

Image Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/19/lee-miller-a-womans-war-exhibition-imperial-war-museum-second-world-war-dachau-hitler

Photojournalist Heidi Levine is photographer who somewhat bases her work on Jerusalem.  She covers many stories in the Middle East area. Levine has three children that she is raising. During her career she likes to look at stories that are on a professional level and personal. I feel that Levine motivations are her family because she wants to be successful and give them a good life and give them a reason to live. This woman has won many awards for her photographs as in the Silver Award for video/multimedia features, honorable mention at NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, and many more. Comparing Heidi and the other photojournalists I feel like we have the same motivations our family and the world. We all want to make our family proud and change the world or community in some way and if we put our mind to it we can achieve it. Also we want to change our community or world through our career. Only thing different is I want social work to be my career but work with kids. So many kids now a days have difficulty with families and friends and I want to help them get through it. Also what touched me was the video of when Gordon Parks speaks about blacks. When he said " don't let blackness weigh you down." Hearing this made me think of a lot of things especially for our future kids. Certain parts of the world still have racism and I feel like its coming back. I don't want the younger children to think because they are colored they can't do anything for their community or world.

Image Source: https://www.iwmf.org/blog/2015/03/24/heidi-levine/

Image By: Heidi Levine

Image Source: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-03-25/heidi-levines-war-photos-gaza-keep-colleagues-memory-alive

Chapter Eight

Image Source: http://www.thegreatleapsideways.com/?p=209 

Photo By: Ed Clark

When I look at this photo I obviously see a black man crying playing an instrument, which I would describe this as Rules of thirds. The man is off centered and he is bigger than everything else that is in this photo. I feel like he is crying because something has hurt him and you never really see a man cry unless its very serious. In the background you see other races crying and they look upset also. The crying from the man and the people in the back will give you Feelings. As you look at the image more and more I feel like it just grows on you from looking at everyone's expression, maybe there could be connections to the photo from your personal life. So what I interpret from this photo is that maybe someone has passed that touch these people dearly. The word that I would like to use for this photo is community. I want to use community because back in the past there was a time where whites and blacks were separated and to see the white people and black man come together to send someone home is amazing. Also if you look in the background I see the women looking at the black man as if they are enjoying the man there and playing a good song. In this  photo I feel like its truth just because of what the occasion of this picture is you see tears, upset faces, and the gestures of the people look so real. Last but not least the color of the photo is Black and white which I feel if it was in color it wouldn't be so deep.

Photo by: David Parker

Image Source: http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photography-qa-with-a-nikon-pro-photojournalist/

When it comes to truth in photojournalism , my truth can be different from someone else truth. When I picked this photo I seen truth in it. The photo does not seem edited or things probably weren't taking out. In this photo the focus is the baby and how he/she is living. Donald Weber stated in one of his articles is that "As a result, the guidelines of what "makes a good picture" have remained intact. It's focused on an ideal, the holy grail of the perfect picture, on picture raised above all else." Also in  a photo you will know its the truth by the emotion of the subjects expression. The emotion of the baby looks confused or he is wondering what is going on in this area that he is sitting in. When I look at the baby I feel bad because where he is living its very dirty and he looks abandoned and no child should live this way and this is what I think causes the image feeling. Why does their have to be so much garbage around, this makes me feel like that their could be diseases around, which could harm the baby. Emotion plays a big part with truth. With emotion you can tell things are not right and you could feel the emotion in the picture. Last but not least in this photo I see depth of field. When you look way back into the photo the train tracks lead to a mysterious person that makes you wonder if that is the child parent or is it a random person. 

Photo By: Mary Ellen Mark

Image Source: http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/elements-of-iconic-photography/

Looking at this photo you can clearly see that this is not the truth for many reasons. One this little girl is holding a cigarette or whatever in her hand and posing. At this age of this little girl she should not being doing this and what mother would let her 7-9 year old child pose like this without stopping her. In this photograph it is Simple background because it just has grass and a little bit of tress. Also I feel like it is simple background because the photographer wants us to focus on the two little girls but mainly the one that is standing. The photo Contrast isn't really that different. I feel like the whole photo is the same color not that much light. The lightest parts is the pool and the little girls if the pool was a different color and the girls were a different race the photo will have no difference in color. If you look to the right of the little girl you could see a little Shadow , you will have to look deeply into the photo. This makes me think that the picture had much light and color. Once the photographer looked and edit the picture she changed it to black and white and kind of dimmed it . Whereas this photo would be bias. 

Chapter Seven

When I think of ethics I think of rules or certain standards of a certain thing. When you look up the word in a dictionary” ethics is the code of conduct for an individual or group.” With the topic of photojournalism it is somewhat hard to define ethics in this case.  For photojournalism the term ethics keeps changing. Now for photojournalism ethics you have to be careful on what you’re photographing because of the subject. According to the NPPA, “This code is intended to promote the highest quality in all forms of visual journalism and to strengthen public confidence in the profession. It is also meant to serve as an educational tool both for those who practice and for those who appreciate photojournalism. To that end, The National Press Photographers Association sets forth the following.”

            Michael Kamber who was born in Maine in 1963 is a photojournalist who has been in this career since 1986. Kamber has worked all around the world as in Iraq, Liberia, Sudan, Haiti, Israel and many other places. His work has been in the United States and Europe. There are many well known magazines that he has worked for. Kamber attended Revson Fellow at Columbia University and was the winner of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Lifestyle Award. In an interview last year Kamber was asked questions about photojournalism and altering images. One day Kamber decided to make an exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center about Altered images. The exhibit showed fake, manipulated, and staged photos. During the interview Kamber was asked good questions that later in the future other photographers can look at and maybe able to change their work. One question that caught my attention in the article is, “Do you feel that image altering is getting worse in the age of digital manipulation?” Kamber had a long response but my favorite part of it was “Staff jobs and apprenticeships with editors that can teach you the ropes over a period of years – that has all gone out the window. I think those were the ways certain standards and ethics were passed down. That whole system has disintegrated. So, you’ve got a lot of young photographers who I think are, to no fault of their own, not really trained in photos and ethics and they have the means of production at their fingertips. They have grown up with Photoshop and can change photos at will.” So many photographers now a day’s use a lot of technology, while this technology gives them the advantage to change pictures in any kind of way.

            Kamber gives different examples of ethics being disobeyed in the interview. One example is a picture in Syria that he mentioned. Narciso removed a video camera when he decided to edit the photo. It was said that the photographer "was cleaning up the image and not changing the meaning."

Photo Taken by: Narciso

Image Source.:http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2014/AP-severs-ties-with-photographer-who-altered-work

My view on ethics of photojournalism has its high and lows. I feel that altering pictures is wrong at times because its fake and its not showing the real thing. Photoshop has become so popular now that you do not know what to believe. I understand that some photojournalist may want to change the picture to give it a extra dramatic effect or maybe one little detail will make the picture better but it is wrong to the viewers eyes even if they don't know. Personally I wouldn't want anyone to try to change my ethics if they had the chance to. I'm my own person based on my ethics and a picture is its original self based on its ethics. 

Chapter Six

The woman photojournalist that I have researched was Lee miller who real name is Elizabeth Miller. She was born on April 23, 1907 and passed away July 21, 1977. Miller was an American photographer who enjoyed taking pictures of fashion and wars. She was exposed to photography from her father Theodore; he had a Kodak Brownie, stereoscope and a darkroom where he taught her the basics. Miller was raped by a family member at the age of seven when she was visiting relative. The poor girl was traumatized and caught gonorrhea. After the incident her father took nudes photos of her to force her to deal with the trauma she had from her incident. Lee Miller had many other activities that she enjoyed dance lessons, modeling, and drawing and painting. In 1929, she lived with Man Ray who she was his student, collaborator, muse and her lover. Ray was the one who taught her more about photography as n the negatives and positive parts of photos and produced halo like outline and lights and darks. In New York City, Miller had started her own photo studio with her younger brother, Erik.  Miller became more known when she started working with Vogue and Life photojournalist. She followed the 83^rd Infantry Division of the U.S Army with David Scherman and was the first women photojournalist to do this. Some of her famous photos were Liberation of Paris, the battle of Saint-Malo, field hospitals in Normandy, and the liberation of both Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Image Source: http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and-design/2013/08/lee-miller-photographer-biography-excerpt/

In the workplace women have been discriminating many times with their sex or gender.  Women have made it known that they are capable of doing whatever men can do. They can perform the same skills and success in every field. With discrimination of women, it holds many women back from getting jobs. It holds women back for many reasons sexual harassment, withholding promotions, different job opportunities and trainings. There are many questions that still should be asked today. One important question is that should women be paid less because they are women. The answer to this question would be no the EPA states that , employers are prohibited  from paying wages to men and women who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility and that are performed under similar working conditions within the same establishment. Women who feel that they are being discriminated should contact Human Resources so they can fix the problem. If human resources does not fix the problem should contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

 In the profession of photography there are many women who were being discriminated in different ways. One person that I will speak on is Marilyn Nance she is an African American photographer, back then women of color faced many obstacles and in the field of photography , this one women faced some. Nance focused her work on personal, cultural, and national history.  For Nance the employers discriminated her because of her age. Nance did the right thing and filed a claim against the DOE. This was all caused because she was younger than the replacement who she was working for.

Image By: Marilyn Nance

Image Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/08/01/157741923/meet-marilyn-nance-photographer-psychic

Subjects Expression: In this photo I realized the lady on the right . Her expression on her face looks very stressed or angry about something. The way her body is leaned over seems like she wants help for something and the other women is trying to comfort her and speak to her.

Obvious Main Subject: The main subject would obviously be the two men they really stand out to me because they take up most of the image. Also the people in the background are very small where you only notice the two women,

Black and white: I feel like black and white fits this image perfectly because if it was in color it would be too much going on and there wouldn't be a dramatic effect as it is now. I think at this time of when the photographer took it only black and white was available

Image By: Anja Nierdringhaus

Image Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/photojournalist-anja-niedringhaus-killed-in-afghanistan/100710/

Year Taken: 2014

Rules of Thirds: This is rules of thirds because the little boy is off centered and the main focus of the photo is the big sister getting her brother off the barrier. The other little girl in this photo wouldn't be the main focus to me because she is just standing around watching.

What feelings does the image create?: I feel like this image creates happiness because the little girl is doing something really helpful to her brother which is helping him. If she didn't help him he could get hurt really bad only because of what size he is. I would call this protection.

Keep it Simple: In this photo I feel like the background is simple only because where they are located usually you may see animals or other people around. In this photo its just simple dirt and barriers.

I choose this image because in this module we researched women discrimination. Women can do things that men can do and some men may feel that women can't protect themselves or another person, which in this photo is a good example of the littler girl protecting her brother when there is no one else around.

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