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
“Assembling the photo series In this lesson I will teach you how to set up the series. What does this mean? So far, we have a selection of images. It is basically having only our successes. It's like going to the hill and instead of taking a thousand photos, having taken only fifty or sixty, which is a selection. With this body of images, which you can have as sixty or one hundred, Let's start putting together our series. What does it mean to put together the series? It is to see what goes first, what goes next, shape our story. See where we started. What we want to be seen first, what do we...”
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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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