Using rhetorical arguments in photojournalism
There are four main rhetorical principles that are the widely accepted modes of persuasion. I’m only going to give a nutshell view of these principles, they can be understood to be much broader than the simplistic way I’m going to talk about them, but this isn’t the place to delve too deeply into philosophic debates. [...]
What story are you trying to tell?
Ryan Lobo, a documentary film maker and photojournalist gave a TED talk that was incredible and inspiring. “Sometimes focusing on what’s heroic, beautiful and dignified, regardless of the context, can help magnify these intangibles in three ways, in the protagonist of the story, in the audience and also in the storyteller, that’s the power of [...]