Author Archives: fantmann

To think about if you’re photographing a neighborhood:

What does the community look like in a general sense?

Character of streets, condition of housing, signs, stores

What are the components of the neighborhood, public spaces, religious institutions, commercial areas – restaurants, businesses, schools

Who lives there? Who works there? Is it homogeneous? Are there different subcultures? Is it permanent, transient. Photograph the range of people to be seen

What kinds of daily cycles go on? Show the flow of people and activities.

Is this community in transition? How is it changing? What is not changing? Are people, businesses moving in/out?

Get to know some people who can be hook into the community. Take notes. LISTEN and OBSERVE carefully. When and if you get to know different members of the community, work from the outside/in, from the public to the private, from the formal to the informal. Be sensitive and don’t in any way express criticism of what you’re seeing.

More to come on photographing different communities, not neighborhoods.

First of all, please send me emails with descriptions of your topics. If you need till Fri night, early Sat to think through your choice, you can have that time. But you’ll need to be photographing during the weekend so that you have 10 pix (work in progress) for Wed.

I’ve compiled a list of websites for you to consult. Look at these sites to get ideas as to how both professional and serious student photographers are working on photo essays.

http://luceoimages.com

http://matteichphoto.com/enter

http://www.burnmagazine.org/category/essays

100 eyes

Digital Journalist

Fraction Magazine and Fraction J

Larry Trowell – Look at his work on the Mennonites

Lens – New York Times photoblog

MediaStorm

Verve Photo

Your Photo Tips

Visa pour l’image

zReportage

37th frame

We now have enough space for everyone to upload. However, a change in how you save your images in Photoshop. Please take note. Instead of saving an image  with Save As, use Save for Web in Photoshop. This will save space. Everybody must implement this change.