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M14 final

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  Kevin Carter and his life as a photojournalist first started out in 1983 where initially he was a sports photojournalist, in short time after he started working for Johannesburg Sta r which propelled his career into the political scene. When starting this position he become a frontline photographer, meaning up close and personal with most of the assignments photographed. Coming fromSouth Africa, he was a member of the Bang-Bang club which was a group of photographers that worked around and captured the violent outcomes of apartheid based clashes.  Photo of Kevin Carter  Unable to find Photographer Credit Carter worked in the photojournalist industry for a majority of the 80s and early 90s before his unexpected demise. Heavily focusing his work on the South African Apartheid during this era of socio-political movement. Being in this field during this era was by no means safe either, Kevin and his other colleagues at the Bang-Bang club were constantly putting themselves ...

M13 project planning

hyperlink  A. Kevin Carter  B. The format I plan on employing for my M14 final project is a collage of photographs with extensive written description. The writings will be detailed about the photojournalist's life, his goal, what he accomplished, and potential controversy surrounding his death. This detailed life description told along with pictures will be telling all aspects of his story.  C.  My Inspiration  D.  This is a very detailed assignment which requires a lot of research to be done, all research done will however be documented appropriately and according to whichever information it relates too. The section 1 10 question goal will also be completed and answered thoroughly, diving down the 'rabbit hole' will help completing this process as I will be doing precise digging around about his life, especially the end of it.  E.  I also understand that in this creation I will have to properly embed content for the project in my blog. This will ...

M12

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 Step 1. In this blog post the goal will be to describe the visualization of what motivates me, there will be references of my motivations compared to well revered photojournalists that have sent shocks through media. My plan to communicate these ideas about motivation and how it propels me, will be a series of AI generated imaged based on actions I find to be personally moving. At first the word that comes to me for motivation is justice, but then I think more about it and I think it would have to be truth or what is real. I believe the truth of any subject is very important and people deserve to know it regardless outcome of acknowledgment. Margaret Bourke-White is a connection to this philosophy, her truth was women in photojournalism which many people expressed grave backlash but she didn't care and became a woman of firsts.  All images generated using Microsoft Copilot Prompt 1: Generate an image of a scientist doing research in a lab Prompt 2: Generate an image of a prof...

M12

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Alternative expression B response.  Image 7 Prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a news reporter ignoring the truth right in front of him"  Image 1 prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a doctor receiving a check from a pharmaceutical associate"  Image 2 prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a politician giving a speech"  Image 3 prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a lawyer giving a defense testimony"  Image 4 prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a teacher talking about history with their students"  Image 5 prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a biologist taking a picture of a group of wild bison" Image 6 prompt: Created by Microsoft Copilot "Generate an image of a physicist" Not able to supply hyperlink due to Microsoft Copilot being an App. 

M11

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  A. "Goin' home" taken by Ed Clark B. This picture, named "going home" is an interesting take with seemingly high amounts of emotion being captured in frame. I honestly can't tell if these are tears of joy or tears of sadness. Based on the way it looks I would have to think they are from sadness, it actually looks a lot like a military memorial service, possibly a service for one of his fallen brothers. The people in the background look sad too, focusing on their body language everyone looks very down and gloomy. If I had to guess when this picture is taken from I'd have to guess somewhere between 1951-1963, basing this off of the black-and-white, wars at the time, clothing of bystanders, and style of architecture. It looks like it was taken somewhere in the south as well, big white houses with columns for support. Maybe Virginia, Carolinas, or Georgia. Something Professor Nordell said in Photojournalism and Bias Pt 2 at 0:48 he talks about the differi...

Ethics In PhotoJournalism

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 A.  Created using Snapchat Photo editor B.  Photo taken by Nick Ut The controversy I will be doing this on is a picture from the Vietnam war in June 8th, 1972. It is of a 9 year old girl that flees from a village, this village was accidentally bombed with napalm due to conspiracy of it being a threat.  C. This controversy was all about the Vietnam War and the United States being accused and proven to be committing war crimes. A large sum of the American people came out with vocal force, there were huge protests about what was going on in Vietnam, the veterans coming back faced a large portion of this backlash. When returning home they would be harassed by protesters about the atrocities they may have committed overseas. These 'hard to look at' photographs dramatically affected public opinion of this war, domestic and internationally.  The United States faced pressure from other nations about what was going on with little to any success most times.  D....

women in photojournalism

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 A.  Name:   Nan Goldin Date of Birth:   September 12, 1953 Place of Birth:  Washington DC, USA Education: Tufts University  School of the Museum of Fine arts Career: Classified by many as an activist, artist and photojournalist Personal Life: Rough early family life, sister committed suicide when she was 11 Left home at 13 and lived in foster care Introduced to photography at 16 Notable Works: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Edward McDowell award  Explored many new ideas and portrayed the LGBT community in an artistic centered format Quotes: "I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times." B.  Through out history another industry where women were majorly outnumbered or constantly slandered for being in, is finance/business. It used to be popular belief and even some still do today that women do/did not belong in fi...