documentary Genre project
Documentary photography: usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit.
The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances. The earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. Nineteenth-century archaeologist John Beasly Greene, for example, traveled to Nubia in the early 1850s to photograph the major ruins of the region
Documentary photography generally relates to longer term projects with a more complex story line, while photojournalism concerns more breaking news stories. The two approaches often overlap. Some theorists argue that photojournalism, with its close relationship to the news media, is influenced to a greater degree than documentary photography by the need to entertain audiences and market products
Companies that usually hire documentary journalists are newspapers or articles and other sources of news related topics.
lynsey addario, photographer
This photographer goes into very hardcore places an documents the life and events of countries and people stricken with poverty mentioning genocide and very touchy and controversial political topics through photography. She reveals the horrors of Afganistan war.
The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances. The earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. Nineteenth-century archaeologist John Beasly Greene, for example, traveled to Nubia in the early 1850s to photograph the major ruins of the region
Documentary photography generally relates to longer term projects with a more complex story line, while photojournalism concerns more breaking news stories. The two approaches often overlap. Some theorists argue that photojournalism, with its close relationship to the news media, is influenced to a greater degree than documentary photography by the need to entertain audiences and market products
Companies that usually hire documentary journalists are newspapers or articles and other sources of news related topics.
lynsey addario, photographer
This photographer goes into very hardcore places an documents the life and events of countries and people stricken with poverty mentioning genocide and very touchy and controversial political topics through photography. She reveals the horrors of Afganistan war.
Steve McCurry
Is one of the most influential contemporary photographers. He was born in Pennsylvania and studied film at Penn State before going to work for the newspaper. Eventually he went to India and sense then has been back many times making a name for himself in capturing the life and culture of the people there. He also founded a non profit organization called ImagineAsia where he helps children education opportunities.
Is one of the most influential contemporary photographers. He was born in Pennsylvania and studied film at Penn State before going to work for the newspaper. Eventually he went to India and sense then has been back many times making a name for himself in capturing the life and culture of the people there. He also founded a non profit organization called ImagineAsia where he helps children education opportunities.