#photojounal

[jonathanbyersdeservesbetter]

jancy in journalism

jancy would be such a powerhouse couple in the journalism field bc both already went through so much shit that dangerous things just don't phase them anymore. exposing hawkin's lab? that was just the first of many. they would be the first people on the scene getting stories, taking photo evidences and making sure that the media and powerful people don't get to cover it up. Nancy, with her extreme sense of justice (that sometimes it's dangerous to both herself and others) would do anything to get these stories out so victims would get justice. she ensures that every bit of relevant detail is recorded on audio, paper, photos, and video if possible and makes multiple copies and stores it in various, obscure places that she only tells a select few so that if one is destroyed or stolen, she has back-ups. if plan 1-3 falls through, you can bet she has back-up plans for back-up plans. nancy numbers her plans because the alphabet only has 26 letters.

jonathan climbing to dangerous places and getting up close and personal so he'd not only get the best shot, but the most accurate and showing people evidence of what happened. since this would be the late 80s-90s, photoshop isn't really a common thing yet so photos and videos are really the irrefutable evidence. nancy is so proud of jonathan whenever he publishes his photos because while written words can be fake, photos can't (at that point in time). he takes up video-recording as well, and spends a lot of his time improving his skills on taking the best photo/video in record timing so nancy's efforts in contacting victims, getting them into these exclusive but dangerous opportunities are not wasted once the time to get the word out comes.

at first, jonathan wasn't willing to go through this with nancy. he wanted to do rock photojounalism, he wants to listen to music and learn about the bands he interviews because they are what got him through life all these years. music was his only escape for so long and he wants to know why, why does he love it so much? why do they love it so much to make it their lives? but then jonathan thinks about el and her lost siblings, about will and his mom, about himself, that if only they received that kind of support and voice to get help for themselves, and maybe they wouldn't even be in hawkins at this point. maybe el would've been jane and moved away with her mother and they would've never met, and the upside down would've never seeped into hawkins because el never opened the gate. while in the grand scheme of things, a poor family from a small town abused by the man in the house wasn't the most tragic thing in the entire world when you think about the upside down or those in war-ridden countries who may not even make it the next day, but then jonathan remembers those days he went hungry because joyce got sick and couldn't work her regular hours and he gave his food to will, who was so small and sensitive and got sick often. or when what hurt the most wasn't when lonnie beat him or burned his cigarettes on him, but it was seeing him joke around with the officers when joyce finally got her courage to call 911 just for them to laugh at her and call her crazy, that maybe she was the one who put those bruises and just didn't remember.

it was this kind of corrupt power that seems to get into the hands of the worst people that jonathan thinks maybe he can understand a little bit. that maybe he wanted other people to not feel this way or go through this anymore. he got out, so why can't they? if they need just a bit more help, why not? after all, they've all got shared trauma, what's a little more?

their families and friends are worried for them as they travel to dangerous places because unlike the upside-down, these are humans. they're powerful, power-hungry people that would do anything to keep their position, and they're human, unpredictable and have done more evil things than eating people. they're people who can turn an entire country against two 20-somethings from hawkins, indiana, and most importantly, their families and friends can't be with them if that happens. they can't fight through this with brute force because it's the military, it's words, it's power and politics and who-knows-who. no one from hawkins has that kind of power no matter if they saved the world three times already, no matter if they did more for the world than these wannabe leaders that only care for themselves.

anyways jancy as a power couple not only in hawkins but the WORLD. i always thought nancy would make a great investigative or political journalist that won awards and almost die a good handful each year because have you seen her??? and jonathan would tag along bc he admires her ambition and secretly always wanted to help others and make good changes in the world even if he acts aloof and timid. but then i thought closer about it and ofc why wouldn't he???? he's felt powerless all his life and was controlled by the societal circumstances that perpetuates poverty and abuse, and jonathan thought he'd continue the cycle in s4 because that's the only thing he can do with the resources he thought he has. but he just doesn't realize he doesn't have to be stuck! he has a loving family, friends, and hush money from the government definitely helps a lot now. s4 jonathan is a a different person in a different position from s1 jonathan. so he realizes this as he got older and then upside down was finally dealt with and gone, and he's like, wow! i can do something about my life AND other's life! i only got to this point with support, and if i can do it it, others can do with a little help. also, nancy is ambitious and smart af and has so much righteous anger in her small little body that all she needs is a supportive partner. if that partner shares the same values as her and is willing to put in the world, what's changing the world compared to saving it?

[luiznalves]

IV MOCOTÔ DO BOIADEIRO SEU LUA BRANCO -TÁTA KANAMMBURÁ ( ANDRÉ FIUZA). BRASÍLIA - DF. Ògan Luiz Alves/Projeto Oníbodê. #photojounalism #photooftheday #images #journalism #photography #photography #photography #galeriaolhodeaguia #faststone #photoreligion https://www.instagram.com/p/B3n14G_Fzgg/?igshid=1y54exavmtmd

[raynerpenar]

Niños juegan en una casa con la estructura debilitada por las lluvias, el 29 de junio de 2022, en un barrio de Petare en Caracas (Venezuela). El suelo y las paredes crujen, la inclinación se vuelve natural y la humedad es la regla. Así son las casas frágiles que habitan cientos de ciudadanos en favelas de Venezuela que fueron declaradas en riesgo, pero nunca desalojadas, y ahora se hunden ante el abandono del Gobierno, aseguran sus habitantes. EFE/ Rayner Peña R. - Children play in a house with a structure weakened by the rains, on June 29, 2022, in a neighborhood of Petare in Caracas, Venezuela. The floor and walls creak, the slope becomes natural, and humidity is the rule. Such are the fragile houses inhabited by hundreds of citizens in favelas in Venezuela that were declared at risk, but never evicted, and now they are sinking due to the abandonment of the Government, say their inhabitants. EFE / Rayner Peña R. #Venezuela #Caracas #Petare #lluvias #rain #collapse #photooftheday #colors #onassignment #vzla #everydaysocialjustice #documentary #assignment #fotoperiodismo #photojournalist #photojounalism #streetphoto #efesiempreestá (en Caracas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfpQ60xPj9w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thegutterjournals]

OTTO’S HOUSE PARTY.

FULL FLOWER MOON BAND.

@ WORLD BAR, KINGS CROSS.

[gustavobasso]

[Eng Below | Link in Bio] Maria Rosélia Rocha, pequena criadora de gado na zona rural de Uberlândia, em três momentos. “Em 60 anos do meu marido vivendo aqui, só parou de minar água quando uma empresa produtora de ração animal furou um poço 1 km acima; e desde então foi secando, até que agora temos esse chorrinho de água que não aguenta nem lavar a louça”. A superexploração do lençol freático e aquíferos se soma à falta de chuvas desde o inverno passado para agravar a situação da pior seca já registrada no centros-sul do país • Maria Rosélia Rocha, a small cattle raiser in rural Uberlândia, in three moments. "In 60 years of my husband living here, the water only stopped running when a company that produces animal feed drilled a well 1 km up; and since then it has been drying up, until now we have this little puddle of water that can't even wash the dishes". The overexploitation of the water table and aquifers adds to the lack of rainfall since last winter to aggravate the worst drought ever recorded in the center-south of the country • • #onassigment #yahoo! #fotojornalismo #photojounalism #burndiary #yahoobrasil #nurphoto #seca #crisehidrica #drought #everydaybrasil #everydaylatinamerica #nikonphotography (em Uberlândia - MG) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpMvbqnwkU/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bria-mai]

Udaipur India

Brianna Schwartz Photography

[01.2018]

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[weatheredandshorn]

Potential on the wall.

by Clary Estes

[classic8media]

If silence is violence, the residents of Oakland have an answer for that; art. Throughout Saturday artists of all ages and ethnicities took their paint, paintbrushes and spray paint to claim boarded windows in Downtown Oakland as forms of beautiful expression. To read more, view the photo gallery and watch the video, check out the post:

[thebronxer-blog]

Last night’s “Summer Rain” : #whatmakesyouabronxer #ebxdaily #photooftheday #photomafia #photooftheday #rain #blackandwhite #rainy #nights #nikon #photojounalism #bronxer #bx #enjoy #candid #streets

[writtenbywill]

“Retail Unit to Let”

When you walk down Kingston high-street you are surrounded by throngs of other people, the occasional street vendor, buskers, and those poor bedraggled charity workers trying to drum up donations for this week’s noble cause. You may therefore start to believe that this vibrant river of retail is booming with trade. But when you take a step back, and look to either side of the street, you see two very different stories being told.

Standing peacefully in the shadow of the Bentall Centre is Church Street, named due to the two centuries old Churches that sit on either side. Church street is rather ‘chocolate box’ in its look, and the architecture provides a nice juxtaposition to the modernity of the businesses that lie within its walls.

Cobbled streets and a mix between Tudor and Victorian architecture are wonderful sights for the eyes to behold. This combined with the faint wafts of fanciful foods from the Marketplace, and the occasional peeling of bells from the old Saxon church brings an air of magic to the whole street. However, Church Street does have a major floor. Businesses are struggling to survive there.

Property websites Estates Gazette and Zoopla currently have fifteen properties listed as “retail units to let” within 300 metres of Church Street. This includes four, within ten metres of each other on Church Street itself, and another six on Clarence Street, which is Kingston’s main high-street. When you look at the list of businesses that used to occupy these stores, you can see a pattern start to emerge.

Thomas Cook’s Church Street branch closed in March 2019 just six months before the company as a whole fell into financial insolvency.

Karen Millen’s store on Church Street Closed in August 2019 after the company was purchased by BooHoo, which subsequently moved the Karen Millen business to be a solely online venture. 

The Fight Centre branch on Fife Road is soon to close, with the property already up for rent, after its parent company, the Flight Centre Travel Group announced in August 2019 that 30-40 of its stores will be moved to “better locations”.

This is not just confined to the retail sector either, service industry giants Subway closed their Thames Street branch alongside another 2304 restaurant closures from 2016-2019. These 2305 now closed sites accounted for nearly 9% of Subway’s total restaurants. (Restaurant Business Online, 2019). Just on the other side of the road, gourmet burger restaurant Ritto’s was forced to close due to a lack of trade. 

Thames Street currently has seven stores either closed or closing down, which accounts for a nearly a third of the total sites available in Kingston. This includes the two aforementioned restaurants, a bank, an electronics specialist, a hardware store, a clothes shop and a fabric retailer. 

What this shows is that it is not an issue with the types of business located within this area, and therefore it must have some correlation with the area itself. This leads me to believe that the main cause for the store closures on Church Street, Thames Street and Clarence street is their proximity to the Bentall Centre.

The Bentall Centre is the last remaining part of a formerly grand family retail empire, that operated from 1867-2001. Now owned by department store magnates Fenwick the shopping mall holds onto its original name as a tribute to its founder Frank Bentall. A statue of whom can be found on the third-floor concourse, looking over visitors as they enter from the car park. 

The Bentall Centre in its current state is in the midst of its 25th birthday celebrations, with parent company Fenwick using this as an opportunity to splash out on some refurbishments for the slightly dated looking areas of the shopping centre. In addition to this, the company announced lavish plans which will see the introduction of a four-screen installation of Curzon Cinemas, as well as new restaurants and eateries by the end of February 2020. 

It is easy to see once you enter the shopping centre, why it may be having such a detrimental effect on the streets surrounding it. Four floors with “75 stores offering over 1000 brands from fashion to food and drink” creates an almost central London environment, without having to venture outside of Surrey.

Convenience is key in this day and age of retail. A 2017 study by the University of British Columbia found that people who spend money to save time, are often happier than their thrifty counterparts. A shopping centre is the closest physical equivalent to online shopping that there is, with a vast group of varied retailers all housed within one easily explorable site.

People are increasingly unlikely in this day and age to shop in the same way that they would have before the online retail boom, in fact February 2019 is the first month on record where the market share for online and ‘non-store’ retailers is larger than their traditional physical counterparts. 

Co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group, Paul Hickey, said in an investor call in February that the main factor of this change has been same and next day delivery services offered by online retailers like Amazon, further adding that “people don’t think about shipping anymore – that’s a big contributor”.

This is part of a trend that has been emerging for several years now. In August of 2018, Telegraph Consumer Affairs Editor, Katie Morely, penned an article depicting that one in every five pounds spent on products sold by UK retailers, is spent online. A rate that has risen dramatically from one pound in every ten, in 2013.

When comparing high-street retailers to an online equivalent this trend becomes increasingly obvious. 

An institution of many British high-streets, House of Fraser, showed in their Annual Report for the 2018 financial year that the company operated at a loss of £54.6 million. With the ownership group describing the problems afflicting the company as “nothing short of terminal in nature”. 

Whereas online retailer ASOS announced in their Annual Report for the 2018 financial year that they were operating at a profit of £101.9 million and that their figure for year-on-year orders had risen by 27 per cent to 63.2 million.

The UK government are increasingly aware of this demise of the high-street, and have set up ‘The Future High Streets Task Force’ a group designed to attempt to counteract the “negative feedback loop” of shops closing because no one uses them, and no one using the high-street because all the shops are closed. This task force has been set up by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, and they hope to have a viable plan in place for the rejuvenation of high-streets and town centres, like Kingston’s, by 2030.

[rgerrity]

Today I photographed friends of Rick Axelrod. Tony Rodriguez took Rick for his last ride along the harbor in the Atlantic Highlands. This is just one of many friends that came to pay their respects to Rick. Ride in Peace Rick, I know you were watching!! . . . . . . . . #wherelumixgoes #lumixs1r #photographingamerica🇺🇸 #lumixambassador #changingphotography #firefighter #portraits #photojounalism #bikerlife #lumix #panasonic #usa #uniquesocial #westscott (at Under My Skin Tattoo Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByyU92vnUoV/?igshid=3do224b67zt2

[desbyrnephotos]

Photo on Grafton Street Dublin few years back...John Pilger article. ..#protest #greece #Dublin #Ireland #Instgram #trioka Photography #Street #greek #photojounalism

[excalibur-summers]

[achow06]

Photojournalism Idea

For my photojounalism project, on of my ideas is capturing the idea of quarantine. I believe that being quarantine for the last 7 months has made us think differently. For some people, quarantine is like a jail and there is no escaping it. But, for others it’s a way to get closer to family and to make memories or even get new hobbies at home. 

Another idea I had was illusions and tricks. For example, a photographer named Jordi Koaltic and he basically takes his photos at a fast shutterspeed to create effect like how light travels when moving a glow stick. I could film this in an alley or somewhere in the woods so it create more of a mood.

One of my other ideas is capture really wonderful sport shots. I really want to take this photos because I can relate to sports. I want to take a photo that gives satisfaction to those who play the certain sport. For example, a swish in a basketball hoop could make people feel joyful because there is just something satisfying about scoring a goal.

[gustavobasso]

[Eng Below | Link in Bio] Faz cerca de três anos que as comportas da Usina Hidrelétrica de Emborcação, maior da estatal mineira Cemig, abrem as comportas do vertedouro apenas para teste e manutenção. Os níveis baixos descartam a necessidade de abrir o "ladrão" da represa, focando toda a água na geração de energia. Ainda assim, ela vem gerando 25% da sua capacidade, na tentativa de conter o esvaziamento • For about three years now the gates of the Emborcação Hydroelectric Plant, the largest of Minas Gerais state-owned company Cemig, have been opening the spillway gates only for testing and maintenance. The low levels rule out the need to open the "thief" of the dam, focusing all the water on energy generation. Even so, it has been generating 25% of its capacity, in an attempt to contain the emptying • • #onassigment #yahoo! #fotojornalismo #photojounalism #burndiary #yahoobrasil #nurphoto #seca #crisehidrica #drought #everydaybrasil #everydaylatinamerica #nikonphotography (em Uberlândia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSh0O0AnBLO/?utm_medium=tumblr