Today I want you to use your camera to report something socially unacceptable, close your eyes and think of something that particularly bothers you, a social problem that you intensely hate, now imagine a photograph with which you denounce it, now report it.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. Topics range from portraits to macrophotography, landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You will have a week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week, on Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- Photography is not just about fun.
- Colors.
- Technique.
- Approaches and goals.
- It is not just the beautiful models posing while making faces.
- Photography is a form of expression.
- With a photo you tell a story.
- You make an effect.
- You share a discussion.
- You convince yourself of an idea.
- You transmit values.
- You are making an impression.
- Photography is an extremely powerful form of expression.
- With a photograph.
- You can change the world.
- Believe me.
The challenge today is to learn how to use photography as a form of expression that it is, today we are going to file a social complaint. You have to produce a photo in which you clearly report a social problem, you can represent it directly or subtly if you prefer The queue of the standing in the employment office, the posters that carry those outraged by the corruption of politicians, or a bottle of dirty and broken alcohol that represents drug addiction. Look around you, it’s not hard to find inspiration and ideas, just watch tonight’s news.
To participate in this week’s challenge, upload your photo to the photographer’s blog Facebook wall: In the photo description, include the keyword? Social reporting challenge? followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
If you think you can change the world, I’ll be waiting for you in the challenge.
A little later than usual, here I am, with a selection of photographs as a form of social denunciation that you have expressed during the past week through the wall of Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. There have been complaints of all kinds: mistreatment. of minors, human trafficking, animal abuse, poverty and, of course, the issue of corruption could not be absent.
I keep this snapshot of Patricio Hermosilla about the difficulties that many elderly people face, the photo is simple but its communicative load is easy to perceive, among the technical difficulties that normally arise in photography of social vindication, the photographer was able to capture an adequate composition. photo (rule of the thirds). The sepia filter, which he hadn’t used but there are likes for him, adds a more emotional tone that helps contextualize the photo. Congratulations.