Unfortunately this week I was unable to attend the session due to my car playing up again, I did manage to get it working later on in the day so I came to the library and started to go through the set tasks.
I found the research particularly interesting and it was something I never really thought about, the history of genres of photo journalism. I never even thought before the session that there were many types of ways to go about it.
Obviously studying sports journalism, i chose to look at the history of sports photos. One of the main aspects of photos in sport is capturing motion and you can certainly tell the difference between the quality of when they first started in the 1800s to the present day.
I think the reasoning behind the horse photos makes it for me, a debate whether a horse keeps its foot on the floor when galloping and then after they decide to try and prove their points, get a team together and settle the debate.
Also I chose to include my favourite photo in the Usain Bolt one as I believe it is all a matter of opinion and that photo shows the pure brilliance of him and how much of an athlete he was compared to the others.
Photographic Journalism 