Photojournalism and Street Photography

These are the final images I have decided to use for my final body of work.

In this photo story, we can see the works of Nick Hedges who was asked by Shelter, the charity, to photograph poor homes. This body of work seems to include a lot of overall shots of the run down and even demolished buildings in locations such as Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester. The overall shots help in showing the full location rather than parts of it and it gives the images opportunity to speak for themselves. In this particular body of work, there are also a few sentences explaining the situation, but I think the titles and images would be enough to tell the story. By this I mean is that, once you see the children playing in the rubble, or any location where a child is not meant to be, I can easily connect it to poverty. As for the more medium close-ups, we start to see the rooms these people are living in with chipped paint, tight spaces, messy rooms and more. Almost every adult that is in these images are holding and interacting with the children and it helps in showing that th...

This is a body of work by the fine art street photographer, Michael Merne who decided to photograph the city of Geneva during the Covid-19. Merne hopes that one day we will look at his work and be able to say that that is how it was. First thing I found interesting about this work is that there are not only images of people in the street with a mask, but he also has some overall shots of empty shops and streets. I quite enjoyed the image of the man by the beach, he was all alone and it could be the only place where he finds comforting. Another nice image is the one with the mannequin wearing a mask that shows that the situation is changing a lot of things, one of them being fashion. In the photo story there are a lot of great images which speaks the truth, but there are 2 images were people are not wearing masks. One of them is a portrait of a man in the streets and as a standalone image, there is no evidence of a pandemic, but along with the rest of the work, it shows a different type...