Documentary photography

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by karenoliver

The road kill shots are good too, I'd imagine you would have some funny looks taking them though.

Karen

It's not the funny looks that would worry me, it just becoming his flatmate!

I've not done roadkill but have taken pictures of rats, rabbits and birds killed by hunting birds.

[AndyStevens]

Originally Posted by GeoffWessex

If anybody asks why you're taking pictures of roadkill you could say you're a trainee for CSI Dorset.

Judging by the roads around my part of Dorset recently, we have enough material for 3 series!

Cheers
Andy

[hassan.z]

what separates documentary photography from photojournalism?

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by hassan.z

what separates documentary photography from photojournalism?

Something I have been wondering! Although isnt photojournalism more newsy stuff whereas documentary is more in depth studies of something? I think they are very much interlinked. Read this on photography.com and it says :

" Documentary photographs tell stories with images. The main difference between photojournalism and documentary photography is that documentary photography is meant to serve as a historical document of a political or social era while photojournalism documents a particular scene or instance"


Karen

[ABERS]

That just about sums it up Karen.
If I go to thre seperate demonstrations and pick one from each demo to illustrate what happened on that day at that time, I see that as photojournalism.

If I then put together a portfolio of images from those three events, I would see that as documentary. i.e. showing what demonstrations are all about and how they are organised, policed etc.

[pburness]

Karen & ABERS have summed it up very nicely I think.

Phil