Documentary Photography Projects
Selecting the images
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: Selecting the images
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you my methodology and criteria to select the photographs obtained.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: Selecting the images, 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
“Selecting the images In this lesson we will start putting together the series. We will get into my personal process of how to select images, of how to see which ones work, which ones don't. Basically to familiarize ourselves with everything we've been taking in photographs when we take it to the computer. We have many images and the important thing is to discriminate between the good ones, the bad ones, and, based on that, start putting together our documentary series. For this, I am on my Lightroom screen. What I have here is the interface in the Library or Library mode Where I have a coll...”
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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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