Jenna Lawson - Photojournalism: Photojournalism

Although i have looked at many different kinds of photojournalism and many different photographers my main influence for this brief has come from the book Is Britain Great 2, in 2000 artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale began a collaborative project, 'The Caravan Gallery'. "With the caravan gallery there is this thing that is very familiar to me. It's about seeing humour, seeing quirkiness, seeing strangeness in everyday life. It's not at all contrived, it's just 'click', got it! I like that,'' I found this book very inspirational i like the straight on shots and the simpleness of taking everyday situations and putting them together in such a way. Here are some images from the book some of my favorites and some that i have taken my inspiration from.

Here are some other photojournalists i have been looking at whilst doing this brief, although they are not in the same field i also find there work very inspirational.

Ian Berry

Ian Berry- G.B. ENGLAND. Lancashire. Blackburn. Old woman sweeping paving stones in front of her terraced house with a window cleaner in the background.

Ian Berry-England. Blackburn. The town's classic back-to-back housing system. 1976

Ian berry- G.B. ENGLAND. Blackburn. Three girls perched on a high wall with an overview of the town. 1976.

Eugene Richards

The Blue Room (2008)

Dorchester days (2000, 2ns ed)

Americans We (1994)

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau, one of France's most popular and prolific reportage photographers, is known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes. Influenced by the work of Kertesz, Atget, and Cartier-Bresson, in over 20 books Doisneau has presented a charming vision of human frailty and life as a series of quiet, incongruous moments. He has written: "The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." Text from 'The Encyclopedia of Photography' (1984) - Robert Doisneau

Kevin Carter

James Nachway

"I have been a witness, and these pictures are

my testimony. The events I have recorded should

not be forgotten and must not be repeated."

-James Nachtwey-

El Salvador, 1984 - Army evacuated wounded soldiers from village football field.

Romania, 1990 - An orphanage for " incurables".

Somalia, 1992 - Child starved by famine, a man-made weapon of mass  extermination.

Indonesia, 1998 - A beggar washed his children in a polluted canal.

Steve McCurry

Kuwait, 1991

Kabul, Afghanistan, 1993

Afghanistan, 1983

Don McCullen

Don McCullin was born in 1935 in a poor section of northern London, UK. After serving as an aerial photographer for the RAF during his national service, from 1964 to 1984 he covered battlefields in Cyprus, the Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, El Salvador, and the Middle East, becoming one of history’s great war photographers.

He is the author of more than a dozen books, including his acclaimed autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour (1990), and 2001’s retrospective Don McCullin (both by Jonathan Cape). The winner of numerous awards, including two Premier Awards from the World Press Photo, in 1992 he became the only photojournalist to be made Commander of the British Empire (CBE).

In recent years, in addition to his landscape work in Britain and India, he has focused primarily on the African continent, documenting the AIDS crisis in South Africa, Botswana and Zambia, producing a book on the “lost tribes” of Ethiopia, Don McCullin in Africa (Jonathan Cape 2005), and photographing refugees from the genocide in Darfur in 2007. He was awarded the 2006 Cornell Capa Award by the International Center for Photography in New York for his lifetime contribution to photography.

He has been associated with Contact Press Images since 1995. He is based in Somerset, England, UK.

Christian gunmen looting Palestinian homes, Beirut, Lebanon, 1976

Christian gunmen in the Holiday Inn, battling with Palestinians in the adjacent hotel, Beirut, Lebanon, 1976

A Palestinian family leaving the Martyr's Cemetry, Beirut, 1976

Paul Seawright

Made at the locations of military recruitment offices across Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, these new works comment not just on the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the battle to recruit new soldiers, but reveal a fractured American landscape littered with thrift stores and pawn shops.

The military volunteer force was created in 1973 when the draft was abolished following the Vietnam war. Now recruiters target students, immigrants (who can secure fast track resident status under new legislation) and the unemployed. Despite the certainty that new recruits will go to war, the military met its recruitment targets for the first time last year.