Documentary Photography Projects
Influences
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share with you different references from the world of photography that have inspired me in my career.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Documentary Photography Projects. Create a photography series with a critical eye and personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“influences In this lesson I will tell you about my references. References are very important. and you can imagine that they vary over the years. One might think that he is going to leave behind certain referents, but that is not the case. It is important to see at what point in your career they influenced you. I'm going from back to front. When I started, I paid a lot of attention to street photographers and in documentary photography, classics like Robert Capa, doisneau, Bresson, and all that French school. That's why I moved a little more towards things that interested me As for the aesth...”
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Course summary for: Documentary Photography Projects
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Marcos Zegers
A course by Marcos Zegers
Mark Zegers is a Chilean photographer with a degree in architecture. His documentary photography work focuses mainly on geopolitical and territorial conflicts, which he produces in a contemporary and multidisciplinary style.
Among his projects is an investigation that was published in The New York Times about the young people who left Chile for Russia in 1973 and were unable to return to their country. The long-term project that earned him a POY Latam 2019 award in the environment category is his series focused on the history of extraction (mining) in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and its current relationship with lithium in South America. This visual essay has been exhibited in Chile, Shanghai, and Paris as well as at the AIPAD Photography Show 2019 in New York, the Photo London fair, and as part of World Press Photo's 6x6 program.
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