Documentary Photography Projects
What do we photograph?
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: What do we photograph?
Overview
“A subject has many cases; and in this lesson, I will explain how to define a case, the first fundamental step in establishing the way to approach the story.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: What do we photograph?, 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
“What do we photograph? In this lesson we will see the case. The case is the first step to narrow our subject. Many times, our topic is broad. It is a theme, a general theme. However, the case is the first step to narrow the issue. For example, if we worked with a topic that had to do with how people eat breakfast in their homes in the city, we would have to identify 7, 10 or 15 families or people having breakfast. Well, each one of those people or families would be a case study. That is what I mean by a case. In the case, the redundancy, of the project in question, on the hills of Santiago,...”
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Course summary for: Documentary Photography Projects
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Documentary Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography
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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