Learning Photojournalism and Photo Essays

MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 1:37:49 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 772.8 MB

Photography is a language, and while a single photo can be incredibly powerful, what's even more powerful is a series of photos that tells a story.

Most people think of news media when they think of photo essays. It's true that photo essays are one of the cores of photojournalism, but they're relevant in a lot of other ways, too—to document your family, the place where you live or work, or the business that your company conducts. The key is to think of a series of photos that work together to communicate your message.

In this course, photojournalist Paul Taggart outlines the fundamentals of shooting a photo essay, from thinking about your story photographically to presenting your final photo story.

Topics include:

What is a photo essay?

Shooting different types of photo essays

Picking and researching a subject

Planning and taking the shots

Editing and sequencing images