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REVIVE 2012

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:05:57 -0400

jo-vphotography:

Follow our exhibition page @REVIVE2012_! And come along, free food and drinks, can’t go wrong!

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Sports shots possibles 1

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:40:04 -0500

Sports shots possibles 1

The photos i like from my Caborn Shoot

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:30:05 -0500

The photos i like from my Caborn Shoot

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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:31:28 -0400

A chinese Style ship next to the waterfront in Portugal in Olhao...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:10:09 -0400

A chinese Style ship next to the waterfront in Portugal in Olhao Harbour

a couple of shots of men digging on the beach

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:56:26 -0400

a couple of shots of men digging on the beach

Just a few Photographs of my dogs playing

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:48:37 -0400

Just a few Photographs of my dogs playing

These are some photographs that I took at a night out with my...

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:31:09 -0400

These are some photographs that I took at a night out with my parents in Porutgal next to the waterfront, the interesting thing about this is that all of the people playing are around 20 years old, but they play so much like the people they are paying homage to, and when they sing, even though english is their second language, there were only a couple of mistakes that i picked up on.

Studio workshop with Martin and those from our class who turned...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:19:27 -0500

Studio workshop with Martin and those from our class who turned up (you know who you are if you didnt!) havent used the studio in ages, think these photos turned out alright though

What we (Myself, my parents and my girlfriend) ended up doing at...

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:15:11 -0500

What we (Myself, my parents and my girlfriend) ended up doing at 3 oclock on christmas day, preparing my dad’s make-up for when we went to our friends down the road…….and people wonder why i am slightly strange

B&W photos over christmas, was messing around with settings

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:11:53 -0500

B&W photos over christmas, was messing around with settings

The dogs lying on my dad,Tumblr has been rubbish, havent been...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:43:02 -0500

The dogs lying on my dad,Tumblr has been rubbish, havent been able to upload anything so ive been doing loads of photographs rather than try and upload them

My Tumblr has been rubbish for the past few weeks, so ive been...

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:41:18 -0500

My Tumblr has been rubbish for the past few weeks, so ive been photographing rather than uploading, this is my girlfriend eating a giant Shortbread Biscuit

Working Life : A Photo Essay

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:58:58 -0500

The Douglas Macmillan Hospice, Hanley

Manager Jenny, and staff member Paul

Any donations are appreciated

Always Working

Cash donations are very well received

Another pair of satisfied customers

Always cleaning up a mess

Working Life : A Photo Essay

The Rise of the Citizen

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:42:17 -0500

Citizen Journalists can be anyone, anyone with any equipment necessary to record events as they transpire, be it a Digital camera used the night before for a friends birthday, or a person recording videos of his friends on his mobile phone, these people are able to photograph disasters and incidents as they occur all over the globe, meaning that they more than likely already have the photograph that a journalist would want to get

Citizen journalists generally do not have any form of actual of professional journalistic training when it comes to their documentation of facts, in actual fact; citizen journalists are just people who happened to be in the area at that specific moment who had something that could record images or videos, although, events can be skewed, or shifted depending on the photographers own view point, via image manipulation, leading to a lack of trust with photographers because of stereotyping because of people making images bias or faking them in favour of sensationalising a story.

The equipment that we all use to photograph people or disasters, mixed with the equipment that we use to find out information, talk to our friends over vast distances and travel to far and distant places in a matter of days rather than weeks or months, has meant that the world we live in seems an awful lot smaller because of the ease and speed at which information and photographs can go from one corner of the earth to the other.

The two points stated previously are the two major reasons why the traditional newspaper is becoming redundant in the 21^st century, the first reason is because, whilst originally images and the news could only be viewed in print format from newspapers and magazines, usually a day after the actual event has taken place, however, in modern times, photographs and up to date news feeds are everywhere on the internet, allowing people to find information wherever they may be.

Secondly, however good or quick a photographer is, and however quickly he can get to the scene which his editor has sent him to, a person at the scene will definitely had some mode of recording equipment, meaning that big newspapers don’t need to hire as many people to photograph current news stories as they can simply pay a citizen journalist for his or her photograph rather than paying a salary to a photographer who might not as good a shot.

Although citizen journalists can be extremely useful in terms of paying very little for good photographs, they very rarely have any training in terms of what they can and cannot take photographs of when they are photographing subject matters, for example photographing someone whilst on private property, meaning that citizen journalists are; good for getting photographs that might not nescessarily have been available from a paid photographer, they are quite likely to possibly get arrested or sued because of their lack of knowledge of the law.

Whilst internet based newspapers are a very intelligent way forward for global media, it also means that whilst newspapers become less necessary, meaning that people wont need to carry around cumbersome sheets of paper, this means that there will be far fewer employed photographers, causing newspapers to pay out more money in terms of single photos than they would for paying a photographers salary.

In his book, ‘The British Press’, author Mick Temple (2008) asks ‘Are we all Journalists now?’ saying that ‘Technological developments such as blogging have led to the widespread belief that ‘we are all journalists now’, which shows that people everywhere are realising that the days when only a journalist or photographer could show or tell people what they thought, are indeed over.

W. Russell Numan in his book ‘The future of the mass audience’ (2001) says “What are we to make of this technical……..participation, education and communication.”

Telling people of how, with the new introduction of media into journalism and everyday life, feeling that it gives us an unprecedented ability to participate, educate and communicate with one another no matter our location on the planet, lending itself to an earlier point made in this essay about the world ‘shrinking’.

Although, Numan does suggest that the ease of use of technology could possibly pose a risk to our privacy, which is quite possible, and can be related back to an earlier point made concerning a Citizen journalists lack of knowledge of the law, meaning that he may take photographs inside a place where it is illegal, or they could take a photograph inside private property, meaning that it is in fact an illegally taken photograph.

In conclusion, having looked at journalism in the 21^st century and how it is different compared to earlier photojournalism, I can see how much the internet and current technological advances are changing the way that journalism is done in the 21^st century, and although there are numerous advancements with the exchange of information in this decade, this also means that regular journalists are becoming redundant because of a lack of need.

Bibliography

Temple, M. (2008), The British Press, Maidenhead, Open University Press, page number 212

Neuman W. R, The future of the mass audience, The Pitt building Cambridge, press syndicate of the university of Cambridge, page number 164