Techniques for Documentary Journalists

Hi friends,

So, there have been many threads on LS to help us share knowledge and help the young emerging photographers.
We’ve all seen Michael’s brilliant thread with advice for young photographs (http://www.lightstalkers.org/advice_for_young_photographers ) and we all enjoyed Mustafah’s extremely useful thread on travle tips (http://www.lightstalkers.org/extended-travel-tricks-tips ).

I was hoping we could start another one focusing on techniques for doing documentary work.
I have a couple of questions to sort of"kick it off" but I’d love to hear general tips you guys have on the subject.

Here we go: ;)

story selection – where do you start? Where do you go from there?

building a rapport with subjects – how do you do it?

how to maximize the use of interpreters and fixers?

What techniques do you use for writing field notes and maximizing the knowledge you can get first hand from the subjects?

Thanks guys :)

10 Jan 2009 11:01 | 1 replies

Gidi Morris

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