Couple months ago I found myself serving on the web, and came across a website about well “photojournalist”. I kept reading the blog, and it really touched me. I guess, as a future photographer, it was something that really interests me.

 

 

What is a photojournalist?A journalist tells stories. A photographer takes pictures of nouns (people, places and things). A photojournalist takes the best of both and locks it into the most powerful medium available – frozen images.

Photojournalists capture “verbs.” This sounds simple, but a room of professional photographers was dumbfounded by this realization. Even after a full-length lecture with documentation

and visual evidence, half of the photographers still had no clue what the difference was.

 

A photojournalist is a visual reporter of facts. The public places trust in its reporters to tell the truth. The same trust is extended to photojournalists as visual reporters.

 

Photographers take pictures of nouns (people, places and things). Photojournalists shoot action verbs (“kicks,” “explodes,” “cries,” etc.). Photojournalists do shoot some nouns. These nouns can be standard photos of people (portraits), places (proposed zoning areas or construction sites) and things (name it). However, the nouns we seek still must tell a story.

 

To read more go to

 

http://markhancock.blogspot.com/1996/01/what-is-photojournalist.html

 

I guess for my first blog, I’ll have to leave it at this.