My Take on Photojournalism

Photojournalists are extraordinary and go through many lengths to show the reality of the world and different people's lives through images that tell a story. More specifically, women photojournalists are courageous in their efforts to capture images throughout the years in many different situations from war to social movements. Women as a whole have a tendency to see things emotionally while capturing the beauty in it like with images in photojournalism. Sadly, there are plenty of trials and triumphs of female photojournalists which in turn leads to even broader discrimination when thinking of careers for women as a whole.      Photo by Isabel Ellsen The female photojournalist I chose to talk about is Isabel Ellsen who was known for being a French photojournalist during the times of hardship like with the Gulf War as depicted above in the picture. She was born on December 18, 1958, and started her career young with only being 18 trying to pursue photojournalism. Isabel m...

  Photojournalism & Racial Injustice The contemporary photojournalism issue I chose would be the topic of racial injustice and how it has had a major impact on photojournalism in current times. The topic of racial injustice can be sensitive, uncomfortable and sad at times but overall needs to be addressed. Photojournalists help in addressing the problem by spreading awareness through the different meaningful photographs that tell a story of what is happening around the world. From movements that impacted the past generations like civil rights to in today's time with Black Lives Matter shows how this issue is very much still a problem.  Photo by Elijah Nouvelage Photo by Samuel Corum Photo by Jay Kogler   Photo by Mariah Harris  Second Photo by Mariah Harris Photo by Gabriela Bhaskar The creative format above I chose to use for my contemporary photojournalism issues project is a digital collage. I chose to speak on the issue of photojournalism and racial injustice...