Every Picture Conveys a Story

            Photographs enable us to see things we couldn’t see otherwise: things too tiny or too fast; places we can’t go ourselves, such as faraway lands and even the imaginations of photo-artists. 

             One famous and powerful form of Photography is Photojournalism. It is a type of journalism that uses images to convey a news story. Photojournalist has long been using photos to tell a story for them and capturing moments that will never be recovered. They alert us to things needing attention. 

Language can be a barrier between the message and the recipient but a photograph is the purist form of communication though is still open to interpretation. As photographers put it, photographs are prominent because it is immediate and it is the first thing the viewers will look at. Photojournalists’ powerful images drive the message to people everywhere more graphical than pages of words could. 

Photojournalism has a great power in influencing viewers. It can be strong enough to start reform, catching the attention of the world on issues that should be faced and looked after.

Many renowned photographers, like Carol Guzy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, get results because most of them focus on capturing the feeling and not the picture. James Nachtwey, Dorothea Lange, Kevin Carter are some of the most famous photographers who took photographs of conflicts, wars and critical social issues. The world close his eyes for these situations, so photographers, great photographers rather, can serve as eye-openers. 

The fact that these great photographers managed to survive through all these situations, while shooting is a blessing for us so we can be able to see these kinds of photos. The power of photographs is still unbeaten.

Not only can a photo represent a certain subject but it can elicit more emotion and inspire our human nature.

            “A good picture makes you look and hopefully will make you look a little longer”