4/11: HOMEWORK: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR SPRING BREAK. DUE: 4/26-4/27

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Homework DUE 4/26 & 4/27. 

• 24 pictures documenting your life (over spring break)
• Titled: Springbreak_CS1 
• HIGHLIGHT THE NUMBERS OF YOUR BEST 1-3 IMAGES!! 

Over spring break you will be a documentary photographer of your own life. You will take a series of at least 24 quality photos over a period of time that documents your life. You can either take a series of pictures over the course of one day or over the week. The pictures should show various aspects of you life from when you wake up to when you go to bed. All pictures should be school appropriate.
Photojournalism is kind of journalism that tells a story through photographs. Documentary photography records history and everyday life through photography. Professional photojournalists travel the world documenting world events, sometimes risking their lives to show what is happening in the world.

Henri Bresson, French photographer

Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange 
She documented the Great Depression.
















Other photojournalists:
Robert Doisneau, French photographer
Robert Capa,
Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist
Matthew Brady documented the American Civil War.
Walker Evans documented the Great Depression.