Photojournalism

Thesis Idea #1

I love photography. I feel that it is one of the greatest ways to document the most important and intriguing moments in life... that with just the click of a button a single moment in time is captured, forever frozen in time.

I find myself interested in many notable historical photos such as Jeff Widener's 1989 photograph of "The unknown rebel" in Tienanmen Square, Malcolm Browne's 1963 photograph of Thich Quang Duc, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Behind the Gare Saint Lazare" to just name a few. These moments in time are forever remembered because of these photographers.

I feel that it would be interesting to create a photojournalism diary of an ongoing event that marks a certain time of importance. There are many issues and problems that everyone is aware of, but are not seen as important. For example, the carrying of the Olympic torch and those who protested the Olympics. Due to the fact that the Olympics are held in such high praise, the point of why the protesters are protesting. The protesters story was basically crushed by the media as a way to hide the fact that the city of Vancouver is suffering. It's suffering with homelessness, slums, illegal immigrants and of course a heavily damaged economy.

To have all these issues immediately smushed and covered up by the big names of media to promote the Olympics would have been a major opportunity to be a photojournalist and gather information and see how the other side viewed things and their motovations.