I believe that photojournalism can help change a small part
of the world but not too much. A photo of a man standing in front of tanks, shows
his bravery to stand for what he is protesting for. We as people will see that
and some will say he had lost his mind for not moving but others will state
that we should start fighting and standing for what we believe in and make the
change that need to happen. According to Jonathan Klein of Getty Images “images themselves do not change the world, images have provoked reactions inpeople and those reactions have caused change to happen.”
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Photography is a source of media and can reach out the
across the world. People use the media to cover news and entertainment. You can
take a photo that is worth a thousand words and show it to the world but the government or media companies can also have a say on the photo if they want it to be publish or not. As you
might not know, there are restriction on what people can publish as a photo. Six
companies control 90% of the media in the world. Frugal says it "the illusionof choice,".
Alexander Zemlianichenko took a photo of Boris Yeltsin dancing at a
rock concert which shown the Russians public that he was healthful and ready to
serve his country as president again in the 1996 elections. According to the
first video “It had a major hand in tipping the election in Yeltsin favor”.
In theGuardian post “Antonio French, an alderman in nearby St Louis, spent days posting to Twitter pictures and a series of videos of the demonstrationsand police actions that he captured on his mobile phone – and was reportedlyarrested and then released on Wednesday evening. He is a citizen journalist ofthe best kind: a credible witness who has helped inform the wider public abouta critical matter. Can anyone plausibly doubt that he and the two professionaljournalists who were briefly taken into custody after police demanded they stoprecording were targeted because they were documenting law enforcement actions?”
There are always two parts in a story report. The part you want people to
comment on and the story you don’t want anybody to know about. As in the Ferguson case, the police department
didn’t want the wrong doing of the cops to be broadcast but with the uproar of
the public criticizing the incident. It was a major event that took place and
needed change.
Professor Nordell states “in Egypt the uprising there,a lot ofthe information got out through twitter and five years ago that revolution wouldn’thad happen without using the internet as a source of media”.
Eros Hoagland is a war photojournalist. He doesn’t believe that
his photos can change the world. "My pictures and the pictures of mycolleagues, they don't really change anything. So let's not pretend like theydo. You want to help people? Become a doctor and work in some poor neighborhoodwhere people can't afford health care. That's how you help people." Sometimes it takes more than photos to make a
change. You have to go out in the world and make that change.
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