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Photojournalism. Between Industry and Culture
Photojournalism as an industry has experienced a highly dynamic development in recent years. The present study aims to provide an encompassing image of this industry and its emergence, as well as its challenges in the current context. The cultural dimension of this sector, as well as its prevalent connection to the book industry, constitute two of the main perspectives elaborated in this study. Lastly, an entrepreneurial perspective on photojournalism as a profession is adopted, while a detailed DESTEP analysis is provided further to illustrate the practical implications of this field of work.
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Cut-Off Low
This article examines front-page images from a selection of newspapers portraying the loss of life, grief, and destruction caused by the cut-off low that hit the Valencian community, Spain, on 29 October 2024. This climate-related disaster was the first national catastrophe to take place since Covid-19 and resulted in at least 237 fatalities, leaving a devastated social and physical landscape. The research analyses images from a selection of regional, national, and international newspapers in the first few weeks following this disaster, examining graphic portrayals of the dead, the recovery of bodies, scenes of people in grief, and other unsettling images to explore possible underlying narratives, biases, and absences. The framework follows previous research on images of the Covid-19 pandemic in relation to ethics and the current context of instant image sharing, the effects of globalization, and the contemporary practices connected to the visibilization of death which vary depending on the nature of the crisis and the relationship to those affected. This article aims to contribute to broader discussions on the ethics of visual representation and the construction of meaning in times of crisis.
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A photographer in the forest
The mixture of author's lived experience and an entirely different world through the lens of a camera cannot be more captivating than the living stories in the book. The book starts with Almasy's real-life experiences of how he left his home country, Hungary, to explore and settle in London, New York, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, and various other cities in southeast Asia. Almasy has shared some of the compelling stories in Stung Treng as he walked through the villages, sometimes through the forests, visiting schools where children participated in engagement activities, and reporting their stories on what has afflicted them in the community.
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Cold War Photographic Diplomacy
The emergence of newly independent African nations onto the
world stage in the mid-twentieth century precipitated a contest for
influence among Cold War superpowers, leading the United States to
mount an international campaign of photographic diplomacy
underpinned by a faith in the medium's capacity to cross cultural
boundaries. However, the increasing global visibility of racial
injustice undermined US claims that the nation had transcended
colonial racism.
Drawing on extensive research in the archives of the United
States Information Agency (USIA) and concentrating on the period
from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s, Darren Newbury traces
the role of photography in the United States' appeal to Africa.
Newbury shows how photographing the political, cultural, and
educational visits of Africans to the United States provided a
space for the imagination of international cooperation and
friendship; how the United States presented the civil rights
struggle as an example of democracy in action; and how it pictured
a world of integration and racial coexistence. Cold War
Photographic Diplomacy chronicles this careful scripting of
images and picture stories and details the cultural and pedagogical
work that photography was expected to perform as it was inserted
into the visual culture of African cities through magazines,
posters, pamphlets, and window displays.
Locating photography at the intersection of African
decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the
cultural Cold War, this study will especially appeal to students
and scholars of the history of photography, American studies, and
Africana studies.
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