My take on photojournalism

          For my winter weather image, I took a picture of a family ice skating on what used to be a lake in East Longmeadow. I took this picture the day after the snowstorm last week while some people were struggling and complaining about the snow, others were brought together like this family who got to spend some time with one another. I choose this image because of its significance and while taking the picture, I experienced what it was like to be a photojournalist because it was unplanned.

Image by: Halima Johnson Image by: Halima Johnson Image by: Halima Johnson Image by: Halima Johnson Image by: Halima Johnson For my creative experiential exercise, my friends and I went to a friend’s grandfather's cabin for the weekend and we had woken up in the morning talking outside when I decided to channel my inner photojournalist while attempting to take pictures of the sunrise. While taking these pictures, it was pretty difficult to take the exact moment that the sunrises. I then thought about how it must have been for real photojournalists who have to take pictures during war or those who travel to other states and have to take gruesome pictures to share with the world. The timing and stress the photojournalists had to endure are truly unimaginable especially during the pre-digital era where the photojournalists could only hope that they had taken good pictures when they go over the images. A few months ago, when I began this course, I cam...

David Burnett who was born in Salt Lake City Utah, USA is known as one of the most accomplished photojournalists of all time. With his numerous works as well as his awards to back him up, David has achieved much more than any other photojournalist could in a total of four decades. During his earlier career, while in college as well as post-college, he had worked and interned for various magazines such as Life and Times magazine amongst others before he decided to settle down and create his own company alongside a friend of his in New York. According to David Burnett’s bibliography of Freestyle photography Supplies, his images got disseminated from his coverage of the aftermath of the 1973 Chilean Coup d'Etat which earned him his first major award, the Overseas Press Club of America's prestigious "Robert Capa Gold Medal" for "outstanding photography demonstrating exceptional courage under difficult circumstances". His photography showed people of the ...