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Social documentary photographer

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Social documentary photographer

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Social documentary photography is taking images of humans in their natural surroundings. Usually for showing the disadvantaged or underprivileged people, or images of social groups created by society, also issues created by society, like homelessness, poverty and child abuse.

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The images I’ve chosen are from Erica McDonald's project called grateful dead.

The images are from Grateful dead concert at shoreline Amphitheatre 1991.

‘Were like licorice, not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really licorice.’

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Her images show a part of society that seems to be hidden away, although the people in her images all look happy with their lives.

They seem happy with what they have and work with that, rather than wanting unrealistic things.

All of her images show friendships and relations, all showing affection to each other.

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- Black and white

- Film or digital?

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photojournalist

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Photojournalism creates images that tell a news story. They create narrative, objectivity and timeliness.

Usually for a paper or magazine.

Show news and events in an image.

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Taken in 2005

The images are from Darfur, where he followed all the children there and his images show their lives.

His images show the children suffering poverty.

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His images show a story, about the children and their daily struggles.

Also shows a different world to ours, making us think about how fortunate we are.

Very few of the images show the children smiling.

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- Ron wants his images to raise awareness to for human rights and have been published in various different magazines, including Vogue, NY times magazine and Vanity fair.

- He has created many Charity projects around his images to create awareness for many different problems in the world.

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Erica and Ron both show social issues.

They both show stories of peoples lives.

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They show two extremes of poverty, one in America, and one is Darfur.

They show different reactions, Erica’s images show people dealing with poverty, whereas Ron’s images are to help awareness and show the horrible side to poverty.

Ones a photojournalist and the others a social documentary photographer.