Documentary Photography Projects
Finding the retouching of the series
A course by Marcos Zegers , Photographer
About the video: Finding the retouching of the series
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you my image retouching process to generate a visual unity among all the images in the series.”
In this video lesson Marcos Zegers addresses the topic: Finding the retouching of the 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. we will retouch and calibrate our series. What does this mean? It’s about standardizing through a series of adjustments of lights and tones so that it appears unified. We've already talked a bit about what this unity means. We can see it through the lens. through the camera and equipment we work with. the focuses and decisions on what we photograph and what we don’t. but it’s also crucial how we standardize it through retouching. We won’t perform massive retouches or changes. In our approach. rather than creating isolated giants within each frame. we aim to craft two images ...”
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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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