Welcome to our blog about street and sports photography and photojournalism! We are glad to have you here. The goal of our blog is to help aspiring photographers and working photography professionals get the basics of producing moving images that tell unique stories. Here is what you can learn from our blog posts:
Genre Overview, History, and Specifics
This might seem like a no-brainer, but we believe that to start the right way, you need to know the history of each genre. Regardless if it is photojournalism, street photography, or sports photography, each area has a rich and exciting story behind it. Led by humanity’s desire to depict life via images, the three genres that we discuss here have a lot of contexts both behind and ahead of them.
In today’s fast-paced world of advancing technology, new media content, and sprouting social networks, it is only fair to suppose that photography is facing an intriguing future. However, subject knowledge and history help us better envision what lies ahead and navigate through the thrilling unknown.
Current and Upcoming Trends
Talking about the future, we are also very interested to discuss trends in photojournalism and sports and street photography. These fields are becoming increasingly driven by technological novelty, so it is important to observe trends in their full evolution cycles.
For instance, photo essays are no longer what they used to be when they first emerged in Life Magazine in the 1930s. Thanks to social media like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and the like, this and many other photo storytelling formats have radically changed.
Besides, we would love to have our readers pioneer new trends. That is why we are always open to discussion and suggestions. In this regard, please do not hesitate to ping us if you would like us to debate a certain trend in more detail.
Famous Photographers
We love to review exemplary images and iconic photographers. Our goal is to introduce you to some of the best photography works that will help you gain a new perspective and become a better photographer yourself.
That is why you will often read stories and see famous photographs by celebrated names like Robert Capa, David “Chim” Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and many more. Each of the three genres we discuss here – photojournalism, sports photography, and street photography – has its own heroes worth considering.
Equipment
We could fill in thousands of hundreds of blog pages with our thoughts on equipment. There is so much to write about! Technology is developing almost at the speed of light these days. You have all kinds of cameras, lenses, tripods, lighting, and whatnot. Besides, most mobile phones can shoot pretty decent photos as well. So, keep checking as we publish new equipment reviews almost daily.
Techniques
Equipment is essential in the world of today’s photography, but the technique is just as important, too. Even if you have the most advanced, expensive equipment, it will be worth nothing if you do not know what to do with it. That is why we invite you to follow our presentations of different photographic techniques in the areas of composition, use of light, and the like.
