Photo Journalism and Social Photography

You will start knowing a little more about the work of this war photographer and his influences. Then, you will delve into the meaning and purpose of photojournalism and learn the differences between story and news and their methodologies to finally define the limits of the alteration of the image in the shot and postproduction.

After this first part about general concepts, you will enter fully into the pre-production phase that encompasses all the steps prior to the completion of the photographic report such as the search for information about the conflict, the generation of contacts with activists, NGOs, bloggers and other photographers, the fixer or native population offering help to the media, security equipment, insurance, visas and international identification, vaccines, etc.

Then Manu will talk about the camera and lens equipment he uses as well as the new visual narration instruments that exist.

To finish you will see what the photographic edition is and the objective that it has taking into account that the function of the image conditions the type of ethically permitted photo retouching. You will learn some professional techniques of using editing programs such as Photomechanic, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Lightroom you will meet the Manu post-production and storage team.

WHAT IS THE COURSE PROJECT?

Prepare your own photojournalistic work in its different phases of pre-production, production and post-production showing a newsworthy and current event that is happening around you.