photojournalism& visual storytelling aau part 1

Visual Storytelling & �� Documentary Photography��

Part 1 Ida C. Benedetto Addis Ababa University Jan 28, 2010

What photographs did you find?

[assignment: find and analyze a photo from a newspaper]

Dlisbona/Flickr

Did Donna Ferrato say anything that interested you?

[assignment: Read Donna Ferrato’s

Essay in “Witness in Our Time: The

Working Lives of Documentary

Photographers”]

Did Peter Howe say anything that interested you?

[assignment: Read Peter Howe’s

Essay in “Witness in Our Time: The

Working Lives of Documentary

Photographers”]

Donna Ferrato Living with the Enemy

“Much of the book was born out of frustraMon -‐ first, because I felt powerless in the face of the violence I had seen, and second, because for a long Mme no magazine would publish the pictures.”

hRp://www.donnaferrato.com

“When he started in on the baby, I had to call the police,” Yvonne said. Men who batter women often abuse children, and they in turn may grow up to become abusers. 1982

Garth corners Lisa in the bathroom while hunMng for his cocaine pipe. 1981

While Lisa cries, Garth ransacks the bathroom Searching franMcally for his cocaine pipe. 1981

Suddenly Garth turns and hits Lisa. 1981

The police responded to Mary’s call for help and listened to her as she cried that her husband had gone berserk because dinner wasn’t ready when he got home from work. They held her husband in another room so she could talk freely. He denied everything, and said she was afraid to press charges against him. The police left without making an arrest. 1988

“I hate you! Never come back to my house,” screamed the eight-year old at his father as police arrest the man for attacking his wife. 1988

A policeman in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, tries to console an abused woman bleeding from a head wound. 1983

Late one night, Martha lay in pain with a stab wound in her Leg in the emergency room of a Philadelphia hospital. She said, “He didn’t mean it. You have to believe that the person you love wouldn’t intentionally do this kind of thing.” 1987

When Diana was rushed to Minneapolis emergency room, her chest was covered with black tire marks. Her boyfriend had driven over her with his truck. In shock and still a little drunk, she tried to remember how she’d landed on the road. She and her boyfriend had been arguing. 1988

Portrait of Hedda Nussbaum, whose adopted daughter died of physical abuse by Nussbaum’s husband. 1987

What is this photo essay about?

How does the photographic style help communicate the topic of the essay?

How do the captions effect your reading of the photographs?

What is the photographer’s relationship the subjects of the photographs?

Who is the intended audience for the work?

Lauren Greenfield Kids + Money

“From rich to poor, Pacific Palisades to East L.A., kids address how they are shaped by a culture of consumerism.”

hRp://www.laurengreenfield.com

Edward Burtynsky The End of Oil

“These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between aRracMon and repulsion, seducMon and fear.”

hRp://www.edwardburtynsky.com

SOCAR Oil Fields #6��Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006

SOCAR Oil Fields #1a��Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006

AMARC #5 Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2006

Auto Wreckers #2 Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2006

Oxford Tire Pile #8 Westley, California, USA, 1999

Burning Tire Pile # 1 Near Stockton, California 1999

Shipbreaking #13 ChiRagong, Bangladesh, 2000

Shipbreaking #23 ChiRagong, Bangladesh, 2000

Ida C. BenedeRo Santa Anita La Union

“Applying the revoluMonary principles they learned with guns in the mountains, members of Santa Anita work with machetes and internaMonal organizaMons to achieve the same goals; a dignified existence based on equality and sustainability.”

hRp://www.idaimages.com

Valerio holds freshly roasted coffee.

Sergio holds bullets he saved as mementos.

On the wall inside a home at Santa Anita La Union. , memories of fighMng in the guerrilla army are mixed with family events and pasMmes.

Teresa, with Lorena on her back, leads the family home for lunch ager working in the field during the morning. The children help with fieldwork when school is not in session.

Lila and Aracheli cool off in the water fall on the farm.

Community members listen to Angel make a proposal at a community meeMng.

Drying the coffee beans.

Women sort coffee beans for roasMng. Vilma, right, had leg the guerrilla army to find safety in Mexico when she became pregnant with Maria, leaning over her shoulder in the picture. Vilma’s lover died in combat shortly agerward.

Sergio, a former guerrilla commander, oversees the coffee roasMng. By roasMng their own coffee, Santa Anita has the opMon of selling their product locally to tourists at a beRer price than exporMng the raw coffee, even on the fair trade market.

The face of Che is more frequently displayed in Santa Anita than in other parts of Guatemala. Some guerrillas recieved training in Cuba during the early 1980's.

The community hosted the proper burial of companions who died in baRle over 20 years ago. Some two hundred thousand people were killed or disappeared during the civil war.

The community’s soccer team is named after a famous commander who died in the war, Luis Ixmata.

Community members gathering in the church to Celebrate the 9th anniversary of the peace accords.

Travis Dove Skate Rats

“Less than 500 people live in the town of Rutland, OH, but hundreds more migrate in and out of its borders every year to visit one 88-‐acre farm called Skatopia.”

hRp://www.travisdove.com

hRp://blueeyesmagazine.com/?/essay/indiv/skate_rats/ It was very difficult to get the captions from the online essay. Please see the essay on the Blueeyes Magazine website for captions.

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