Assignment One - Photo Journalism and Corporate Photography

Photo Journalism

Photojournalism is photos and images that are taken for news stories and to tell the news. It is journalism that presents a story through the use of pictures.

In this photograph, you can see armed police in rioting gear trying to gain some sort of control over the people in the public and in this photo there is a woman fighting back against the armed police and actually physically pushing them. This is a good and powerful picture to describe photojournalism as it is clearly showing a news event that has happened. It tells the story itself even without words. In the photo you can see signs of violence and the riot officers body language is very violent and aggressive, he looks like he is about to hit the woman. This photograph shows just how dangerous it is for a photojournalist, as they have to follow the news around as and when it happens and sometimes they have to go to dangerous places and be around dangerous situations. Photojournalism is important because it tells a story to readers and to the world. A good photojournalism picture doesn’t even need words if it tells the story exactly just simply by what’s happening in the photograph.




Corporate Photography

Corporate photography is photographs that are taken for businesses to promote their brands and products. Corporate photography is not done to try and sell the business it is simply just to promote it and make it known to the public.

GOOD

I think this image is a good representation of corporate photography because it is promoting a business, The Royal Mail, and is showing a Royal Mail employee carrying out his job. It shows the company in action as opposed to a ‘boring’ old fashioned staged picture of the company name and logo or of what the boss or managing director looks like.  

BAD

I think this image is quite a bad representation of Corporate Photography because it doesn’t show what business it is promoting and it is just a really boring image of a mans face.