Journalism

So normally I wouldn't do this, but this assignment is to talk about journalism and what we think it is. So thats what Im going to write about. However I'm not going by what most are thinking of when they think of journalism. 

When I think of journalism I think of the people that throw themselves out there,  that fly across the world to get the things they want. Being an art major i think of more of an artistic journalism rather than english journalism, more specifically, Photo journalism. I find photo journalism particularly appealing to me since i do a lot of photography. I feel that it truly captures the emotions in the story, it brings life to it. 

The beauty in photo journalism is that the photos have a story in themselves, they carry the emotions that were meant to be portrayed, in these particular pictures above for most you probably felt sorrow for these people, it takes a good photojournalist to be able to capture that raw emotion for their story. These photojournalists want you to see their story as they go out there into the world exploring the cultures and stories of places and people 

Photojournalism can capture parts of life that other people have no choice but to live that people like us just don't want to think exists, we'd all like to think our world is perfect, that people don't go hungry, that families don't have to give up their children to pay off their debts, that so many people die every day from poor water quality, that there are families that don't even name their children till they are about 6 for the fact that they assume they'll die. things like this happen around the world every day but photojournalism can bring this into reality and change our perspective on things.

Pictures have the ability to make people feel emotions that would not necessarily be there without a visual. Many people can read about abortion and they don't care, but when you see a fetus the size of  a dime.....
  ..... It changes things.