Description
Award-winning photographer and writer Stuart Freedman teaches you how to capture photo journalism stories and create your own portfolio of reportage photography.
What is reportage photography or photo journalism?
Reportage photography, including photojournalist and documentary traditions, is one of the most challenging and demanding of the visual professions. It includes capturing the story and the atmosphere and emotions of an event in your photo.
It requires technical ability, social skills, persistence and an instinct for a story.
You'll be creating your own photo journalistic portfolio of photos as you learn with Stuart.
Choose Expert option for personalised feedback on your photos from Stuart.
You'll learn:
- what makes compelling images
- composition and framing devices
- equipment
- techniques
- best practice for photo journalists
- real-life scenarios and challenges for photographers
- story construction
Stuart will explain how to place reportage photography within an historical context whilst also examining contemporary practice and trends.
The course is clear about a documentary tradition that is allied to good journalism in print and film and is based around the construction of the classical photo essay rooted in the Humanist Documentary tradition.
The course covers equipment and technique but more importantly, the ballet of shooting reportage that concentrates on the ebb and flow of narrative, anticipation and the mechanics of actual story construction.
The course is heavy on best practice, ethics and using difficult real-life scenarios that examine the challenges facing working photographers. It tries to challenge the visual cliché of some photojournalistic work as well as some of the clichés about photographers themselves.
Stuart will show his work alongside great classics of the documentary tradition and at the end of each lesson he'll set an assignment that will push your practice forward.
You'll need:
- a camera
- 50mm lens
This photography course is aimed at keen amateur photographers and aspiring professionals.
The course includes:
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Stuart Freedman
- lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical (optional) photography assignments
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world
Time to complete this photography course:
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 11 hours 30 minutes to complete including:
- Video lesson: 1 hour 30 minutes in total
- Assignment: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per assignment
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Stuart on your photos.
Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.