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
“Finding the retouching of the series. In this lesson we will touch up and calibrate our series. What is this? It is homologated with adjustments of lights and tones so that it looks unitary. We have already discussed what this unit means. We can see it through glasses, through the camera and the equipment we work on, the approaches and decisions of what we photograph and what not, but it is also important how we approve it with the touch up. We will not work massive touch-ups or giant changes in the image. Rather we are going to focus in trying to make one image and another image can be see...”
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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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