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21W.749 | Spring 2016 | Undergraduate

# Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion

#### Course Description

In this course, you will be exposed to the work of many great documentary photographers and photojournalists, as well as to writing about the documentary tradition. Further, throughout the term, you will hone your photographic skills and ’eye,’ and you will work on a photo documentary project of your own, …
In this course, you will be exposed to the work of many great documentary photographers and photojournalists, as well as to writing about the documentary tradition. Further, throughout the term, you will hone your photographic skills and ’eye,’ and you will work on a photo documentary project of your own, attempting to reduce a tiny area of the moving world to a set of still images that convey what the viewer needs to know about what you saw—without hearing the sounds, smelling the odors, experiencing what was happening outside the viewfinder, and without seeing the motion.

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Prof. B. D. Colen

##### Departments

- Comparative Media Studies/Writing

##### Topics

- Fine Arts
  - Media Studies
    - Digital Media
  - Visual Arts
    - Film and Video
    - Photography
- Humanities
  - Literature
    - Nonfiction Prose

##### Learning Resource Types

group_work Projects with Examples
assignment Activity Assignments
A young woman in labor with her first child in the maternity unit of St. Terese Hospital, Hinche, Haiti. Hinche is located on Haiti’s Central Plateau, the poorest region of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates, and mortality rate in children under five. (Courtesy of B. D. Colen. Used with permission.)

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