Documentary Photography
What is documentary photography? (Open Society Foundation)
Documentary photography follows a single topic or story in-depth over time, as opposed to photojournalism’s real-time coverage of breaking news and events. By deepening our understanding and emotional connection to stories of injustice, documentary photography can capture and sustain public attention, and mobilize people around pressing social and human rights issues. In the simplest of terms, documentary photography is all about telling stories with significance, such as historical events. One of the objectives of documentary photography is to record social and political events with the purpose of informing the public. Moreover, documentary photography chronicles events that need the attention of an audience in order to stimulate or encourage action and social change. The main task of a documentary photographer is to act as an eyewitness to what is happening in society. https://contrastly.com/documentary-photography-101-tips-tricks-and-other-important-details/ |
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