A Realisation
One thing that has become very apparent to me, during my research and looking at all these images and photographers is that all the photographs I have looked at so far have all been documents of real life, also nearly all of the photographers I have looked at have been photojournalists in some shape or form; who just happened to capture these images because they where in the right place at the right time. The thing is I have create a media artefact and I am working to a deadline. I very much doubt that in the next few days I might just happen to find myself caught up in the next 9/11 or in the middle of a full blown world war (to be fair I rather hope I don’t). But so far I have come to the conclusion that one of the most affective ways to make an image memorable, is for it to have a shock factor. So how do people who aren’t photojournalists and don’t go out to document real life make photographs shocking? This is what I want to find out next.
I am no longer going to look at real life photographs or photojournalist’s images, instead I plan to explore and research images and photographers that I think have purposefully created “staged” images that some how employ “shocking” material to capture a viewer attention and memory. I am also going to look into ways these kind of photographs can get their work seen as photojournalists have newspapers and magazines, how would photographers creating images with the potential to shock and offend get their work seen by the masses?
