Documentary Photography Projects
Assembling the photo series
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: Assembling the photo series
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you my method of putting together the documentary series and shaping the story.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: Assembling the photo series, 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'll teach you how to assemble the series. What does assembling the series mean? So far. have a selection of images. It's basically like having only our successes. like having gone to the hill and instead of taking a thousand photos. having only taken 50. or 60. It's a selection. With this collection of images. which may include about 60 or 100 photos. we'll begin assembling our series. What does assembling the series mean? As I mentioned. it's about determining what goes first and what follows next. shaping our narrative. shaping our narrative. Deciding where to begin. dete...”
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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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