History of Photojournalism

"Going Home", photo by Ed Clark, April 13, 1945  "Going Home" is an image that centers emotion in its scene. It has a very obvious main subject in the man with the accordion crying in the foreground, which in turn brings his sadness to the forefront of the focus of the image. He is relatively close to the camera compared to the other people in the background which makes him appear larger, in addition with his accordion which together have him take up around 2/3rds of the entire frame. The focus on the man and his emotions is also elevated by the choice of background. First of all is the contrast, with the man being African-American and thus darkskinned in a dark suit, placed with a bright white pillar directly behind him. It sharpens the overall contrast which helps guide the eye to his face, where is where the focus of the scene is intended to be, because it's the darkest area in what is otherwise a large section of a solidly white strip of the background. Seco...

In 2011, Italian photojournalist Alessio Mamo traveled to India for what would be his second time to collaborate with an Indian organization on a project. This project took him to the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, where he met with some villagers of the area. After getting to know those villagers he spoke to, Mamo explained to them the idea behind his project. It required volunteers, of which Mamo found among the people he had just established friendly relations with. The set was prepared, with the villagers who had agreed to be volunteers excited to be photographed and participate in such a project. On July 22nd of 2018, five of the photos in Mamo's project, titled "Dreaming Food", were posted to the World Press Photo Instagram account. The backlash was immediate. But what even was "Dreaming Food" in the first place? According to Mamo himself in his statement about his project after-the-fact, he "...was obsessed by the food thrown awa...

Photograph of Victoria Ivleva by Victoria Ivleva Victoria Markovna Ivleva-York is a Russian photojournalist and activist that was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Very little else is known about her early life, which might be due to privacy reasons considering she is still alive and active today. At some point, she moved from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, where she would graduate from the Journalism Department of Moscow State University. As well as being a photojournalist, Ivleva is also an activist. She has traveled extensively within and outside the then-Soviet Union, from Central Asia to Africa, to photograph people being affected by disaster or violence. On April 26th, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. Ivleva, who had been in Chernobyl just  days after the accident, returned a couple years later on January 1st, 1991, as the first journalist to photograph the destroyed fourth reactor. According to her own statement on RFERL.org , " ...she was able to enter the four...