Week 4: Photojournalism vs Photography

The goal of photojournalism is to show the world and its stories to the average person in this world. Long before rolling film and the television as a medium where established, it was very difficult to find information on current events or stories about other parts of the world. A photograph, on the other hand, can be understood by everyone. The best photojournalistic photographs take people to different places and the viewer is able to relive the events, that unfolded in front of the photographer.