My Take on Photojournalism

For my Creative Experiential Exercise, I went to a Tie dye event on campus hosted by some Resident Advisors. I felt like this was a good event to get great shots of people engaging and interacting with each other. I wanted my shots to be candid and just of people in their natural element. I didn't want anyone overly posed or looking at the camera. I wanted to capture what the event was truly about and how events like these get various different people on campus to come together. Image by: Ariyon Mickle  Image by: Ariyon Mickle  Image by: Ariyon Mickle  Image by: Ariyon Mickle  After the many blog posts this semester I do have a revised definition of photojournalism. Before I thought photojournalism was taking photos to report the news. But now I know photojournalism is so much more than just taking pictures. Photojournalists do take images of happy, sad, tragic eve...

AIC Students enjoying the snow day, by playing in the snow and making super tall snowman in front of the Edgewood Complex on December 3.2019. 

Career Path: Who did the photojournalist work for? How were the photojournalist's images disseminated? “Photojournalist Carol Guzy started her career with two internships at the Miami Herald that led to a position as a staff photographer at the paper. In 1988 she joined the staff of The Washington Post, and in 1990 became the first woman to receive the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award from the National Press Photographers Association” Carol Guzy started her career at the age of 42, shortly after she earned a degree in nursing. After deciding nursing wasn't the path she wanted to go down, she turned to photography. She began interning at Miami Herald and soon was hired to be a part of their team. After about 8 years working there, she moved to a position at The Washington Post. Her work covered mostly domestic and foreign news. She began traveling around the world and capturing impactful events such as Mother Teresa's funeral. Her images were disseminated nationa...

Photojournalist #1: Susan Meiselas Everyone's interpretation of motivation is different. People find motivation in many areas of their life, while others might have one specific thing that motivates them. The photojournalist, Susan Meiselas, connected motivation to knowing where she wants to go in life. In an article, Susan Meiselas: On Motivation, Her Legacy and the Future of Photojournalism , she stated “Finding the place from which you work is a key thing that only you can do, it’s the deep motivation of life. It takes time and you explore it as deeply as you can, and you learn from your own process.” This means that if you don’t know what you want or where you want to go in life, how could you actually be motivated. You have to have a goal you want to accomplish in order to get motivated to get there. Susan is saying she gets here motivations from making her own decision and focusing on the place she wants to work. In the video, Lynn Johnson Women in Photojournalism , she ...