Class Photojournalism

The photojournalism course aims to develop and stimulate the learning of techniques necessary for creating photojournalistic images. We live in the age of the image. Images connect us to the world and to what changes within it. Nowadays, an image is everything. And everything is an image. Images are losing meaning in the absence of critical and analytical discourse, and/or are manipulated, creating dystopias. We will understand the function of photojournalism/photojournalist and the importance of their news truth, visual and documentary, for journalism, both digital and physical, in these times.     "A photograph is worth more than a thousand lies" Juan Fontcuberta

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Theoretical/Practical Module:   The photographic image in its narrative and communicative dimension. Contemporary photojournalism and new paradigms. The social impact of reportage photography. A brief history of photojournalism: from the 19th to the 20th century. The press, photographic agencies, and collectives. Photographic truth. Fiction vs. document. Use of the photographic device according to context. Research methods in reportage photography. Image manipulation. The camera: types, variety, and mechanisms. Light, composition, framing. iPads, iPhones, smartphones. Theoretical/practical exercises.

  1) Throughout the academic year, based on a series of suggestions provides by the professor, the student will take photographs that will be viewed and discussed in the following class.   The suggestions presented by the professor aim to stimulate creativity in the creation and development of photographic image.   The suggestions include: a book, an exhibition, a film, a renowened photographer, and a peice of music or a song.   The student will choose the option they find most inspiring for creating a photograph.     2) At the end of the academic year, the student must produce an artist's book based on their final pfotographic project.

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