Week 3: Role of Photography in Media

Photography plays a crucial role in how we immediately view something. Whether its an ad or promotion, a small blog post, or in today’s top headlines of well known media outlets. The urgency for quality imagery is one step closer in helping create a world with no labels. Quality does not just mean the skill in achieving some of the techniques of photography but also more importantly the subject and how it’s portrayed. As part of the industry that a tremendous amount of influence to readers, the images we choose is what grabs our attention. It should spark curiosity yet not persuade one’s opinion. Photography is still art and very much a conversational component to the words we write, even at the documentary level and how we use it in the media should be treated as such. The increasing use of Social Media and the rise in new platforms has everyone classified as an amateur photographer so the need for quality photography is as important now than ever.

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