Photojournalism and reporting

Photojournalism and reporting

Traditional medias are undergoing several crises. For instance, young people tend to prefer internet and social medias then traditional ones, but online journalism do not have the same professionalism. You can find on these medias, fake news and fake-images, biased journalism, semi-information etc. Online-journalism rely greatly on images and videos that often are mediocre, and do not match with the text. In that context, images lose their senses. This workshop aims to teach you the role of images to help convey informations, to make you develop a critical mind, and if you have your own report, help you to publicate it. 

 

Goals

 

  • Develop curiosity and empathy 
  • Meet other to learn how to live together 
  • Develop a citizen consciousness and the taste for the news 
  • Sharpen your critical mind
  • Learn the basics of photography

Programme 

  • History of images in medias 
  • Presentation of different medias and analysis of images in medias 
  • Technique photographique – Étude des styles de sujets.
  • Making a photo report
  • Picture editing, layout and framing 
  • Captions and editorial writing
  • Publication

Logistics

 

Length

4 x 2h

Public

from 13 to 16 yo

Number

a class

Where

in class and outdoor

Material

cameras

magazines, news papers

a video projector 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside out portrait

Inside out portrait

Inspired by JR large formats street collages, Inside Out enables each and everyone to express themselves and to broadcast their creations. A propos invites you to his project, you will have to take photos of volunteer models, make a portrait of them and then go out in the streets and put them on walls or buildings. Just get creative and play with the volumes. This ephemeral memorial creation is a good reminder to what makes a neighborhood great: it is its people.

Goals

  • To boost your self-esteem and confidence 
  • Awakening to culture and arts 
  • Fight against exclusion 
  • Promote social diversity
  • Anchor population to their territories 
  • Reconcile people with institutions 
  • Make the inhabitants discover the structures in their neighborhoods and increase the attendance

Programme

  • Welcoming the public
  • Teach/Show the models how to pose
  • Make the portrait of the models
  • Editing and printing of the photos 
  • Collage of the large formats photos

Logistics

Length

half a day

Public

everybody

Number

from 10 to 100

Where

outdoors

Material

cameras

A large format printer 

Paper sheet glue