Documentary Photography Projects
Planning
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: Planning
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you the considerations that I think are relevant for the field trip, I will share with you my previous planning method, and I will show you the equipment I will use to photograph.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: Planning, 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
“In this lesson. i'm going to talk about planning. Once we have our topic defined and have researched our case studies. meaning we're relatively ready to go out and photograph. we reach the stage of deciding how we'll approach our act of photographing. What do I mean by this? We need to consider various aspects such as choosing angles. times of day. and specific locations that best suit our project's theme. When creating our series. we must plan our approach in advance. It's not merely about heading out to capture images; we need a clear vision of what we aim to photograph. This foresight en...”
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Course summary for: Documentary Photography Projects
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Areas
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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