Humanist Photography: Capturing the Essence of a Subject

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll talk about documentary photography and how to start crafting your own project.”

In this video lesson Hugo Santarem Rodrigues addresses the topic: The documentary photography, which is part of the Domestika online course: Humanist Photography: Capturing the Essence of a Subject. Explore how to empower stories and cultures with your camera and shift your perspective of others as well as yourself.

Partial transcription of the video

“the documentary photography Unlike an essay, the documentary has the function of registering and, for ethical reasons, it should not lean towards either side of the story. A good story should answer the questions: who, when, where, how and why? But I suggest a new interpretation. I suggest inspiration, theme, worldview, zeitgeist and characters. I'll explain a little why. Photography was created almost two centuries ago, in 1826, and since then, much has been documented. As in the beginning of any technology, it was very expensive, so only an elite did that. Not today. Today, almost everyon...”

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Course summary for: Humanist Photography: Capturing the Essence of a Subject

• Level: Beginner
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• 747 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 22m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Lightroom

• Areas

  Documentary Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography