By total coincidence, I found this photo online while browsing my personal blog's newsfeed and since it was a quote (by Eddie Adams) that we discussed in class - I thought it was appropriate to post with this week's reflection!
I was so impressed by the historical information given during the lecture. I had heard about stained glass windows depicting biblical stories for the illiterate before but I hadn't made the connection with that and it being a form of picture story-telling in the journalistic sense.
In my humble opinion, one of the most iconic examples of a picture story is: Alfred Eisenstaedt's soldier kissing a nurse in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, the day that marked the end of World War Two.
I think just about everybody has seen this photo... and for good reason. This embodies the statement we heard in class "CAPTURE THE MOMENT". I adore this photo because to me it says 50,000 words. It is so touching and moving... It's nothing short of amazing.
I'm really glad I attended the JACS session "Introduction to Digital Photography" because in class I felt like I had a much better appreciation/understanding of the techniques and important aspects of photography that we were discussing. So a big thanks goes to the JACS centre for those great sessions. I was lucky enough to attend two of them and I suggest others do the same.
I'd also like to comment on the award winning photo that we were shown in class of Jonathan Thurston's uncle's funeral taken by Marissa Calligeros. Whilst it is a great photo, that much I agree wholeheartedly with, I feel uneasy with journalists intruding on such an intimate event for a photo-op. I'm not sure where I stand on the issue. His uncle was murdered, which makes it worse... At first, I felt that it wasn't worthy of a news story since it was just a funeral of a relative of a sports star but when I investigated further and found out the cause of death, I felt much more uncomfortable. Especially since the murder was fueled by racial tensions.
It would appear to me, in the field of journalism, if you don't get the story then more often than not someone else will... This isn't even something as serious as it could be. But I'm not sure if I would be willing to put my name to a story about a funeral of family/friends close to a person in the spotlight.
Just a thought.
In other news, this week's tutorial was also very good (once I finally made it after running across campus and back... I didn't get the email in time, oops). I really enjoyed the activity of reading short news stories and trying to come up with the photo to go with them. I felt that really put into practice what we had been talking so it was good to have a sample activity.
Good week in JOUR1111.
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