Week 5 Forum
In the Lou Dematteis' story of ChevronTexaco pollution in the Amazon the images are compelling because it shows the suffering of a people, and fire, and the first really grabs the viewer by the emotion and the later is always an eye catcher.
Dematteis would have faced multiple problems with where and what he photographed but two stood out, first his own safety when documenting government officials in a situation where they could possible want more discretion then spotlight, and second is being able to take so intimate shots. In the photos Dematteis had shots of suffering family and deformed children, both hard to get comfortable taking photos of.
The narrative to ChevronTexaco is all post issue, but definitely tells the story of first people's suffering to there reaction, its the story of first why and then the event (the marches at the trial). Dematteis has a theme of keeping his focus on one individual subject, animate or not, the background plays important detail into the shot, but only one is front and center.
Dematteis need to take photos that spread the idea of injustice, so beyond just shooting he needed to decided what would get the best emotional reaction and spread it around as much as possible.
I need to make sure that i'm taking photos that include people, a story has shots of items or scenes without people in it, but the focus and majority of the shots need to be the people.
Idea's for a Photo Story:
My first idea is to take photos of Scott Bruslind and other staff of Conversion Brewing during the different stages of craft beer that involves human interaction. To pull this off I'll need to confirm it be ok to take pictures of him at the place of business and find the times they'll be working.
Second idea,
Hewlett-Packard, no probably not, I mean possibly, but they're kinda strict about what is" photographable", but the've allowed for specific things in the past, so I'm looking into it as a back up.
