What motivates me?

 



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Woman Photojournalist - Martha Holmes

Image
  [Photo by: Martha Holmes, 1947.  https://www.life.com/photographer/martha-holmes/ ] Name: Martha Holmes Age: 83 Born: February 7, 1923 [Louisville, Kentucky] Died: September 19, 2006 [Manhattan] Martha Holmes was born in Louisville, on February 7, 1923 . Her father worked in public relations and her mother worked as a voice coach. She attended the University of Louisville for one year, before was hired as a Photo Lab Assistant at the Louisville Courier Journal.  he attended the University of Louisville for one year, before was hired as a Photo Lab Assistant at the Louisville Courier Journal. Two years later Life magazine notice Martha Holmes work on photography, so they recommend on hiring her for the cover of Kentucky Derby.  Martha Holmes struggles in the  male- dominated field because   she had to balance between fem ininity and professionalism for her appearance as a female photojournalist. With photojournalism, she takes pictures of well...
Read more

Final Project - Self Defining

Image
  The Self Defining  For my plans in doing is using my arts and editing, because I like to show audience how images were altered and being manipulated by media and photographers. With my artworks, I can edit my creations to make it look like my artwork were altered by editing. After I am done with editing, I will be sending fact about why pictures were edited by photographers who attempted to hide their tracks. as for other themes in photojournalism, I would be planning to make video and music to express what photojournalism means in society. There will two themes that will present in the video - What will stay the same in photojournalism and issues in photojournalism. The inspiration is going to help me to pursue my final project for photojournalism. Creative Inspiration ( Fake Photos Through History (businessinsider.com) ( Photo Manipulation Throughout History: A Timeline | Ethics in Photo Editing (wordpress.com )) ( Historic Photographs Which Are Known to be Altered (13 pic...
Read more

Collage

Image
[Photo by Devin Allen, 2015-2020,  https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/01/16/1139546697/devin-allen-against-poverty-racism-discrimination ] Devin Allen uses his camera as a "weapon against poverty and racism", meaning for protest racial injustice. His first photo was taken place in Fenuron in 2014, which sparked by murder of a 25-year-old African American citizen, Freddie Gray, due to police brutality. His black and white pictures display the issues with police brutality and racial discrimination as he starts digging deeper to each photo that were taken by African American equality protest. According to Devin Allen’s article, protests were occurring through African American people who experience with police brutality, such as George Floyd; his shows when he reflects on stereotypes and show people how they manage to follow different path of protest and justice .   When I see those images as a photojournalist, Devin portrays the racial issues that African Ame...
Read more