PhotoStoryProject
Hey Guys-
Photo Story is a project that blends story telling and photography, in an attempt to 'personalize our common human experience.'
Its pretty self-explanatory, and worth checking out. Also an example of web-organization of a project somewhat similar to ours (photos, text, stories, etc).
Monday, March 3, 2008
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Hey all,
ReplyDeleteSo I'm replying to Natalie's post tonight... as I'm having difficulty accessing the post area (Lorie, I may not be in your list?)
In any case, in searching the world wide wildernet this week I was particularly interested in the Photojournalism area of the Mother Jones (magazine) website.
You can find all their stories here:
http://www.motherjones.com/photo/archive.html
What may be of interest to most of you is Hank Willis Thomas' photo story 'Fitting Tribute' which explores the ways in which untimely deaths are memorialized in Miami's Liberty City. It's worth reading the essay that accompanies the photographs, as both are very well executed and work best in dialogue with one another ( which is the goal of including text alongside images, in the end).
Also, the "American Happiness and the Need to Consume" contained some pretty compelling images. As well as the Darfur story.
In general, I think the site has done a great job with their textual component- as they all truly come across as 'photo essays'
Oh and also...
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine runs a photo blog, and for awhile he was organizing bi-monthly submission-based 'photo stories' based on a single word.
they can be found here:
http://lovebryan.com/brokenbranches.php
Friends and site visitors were asked to submit a photograph that, for them, embodied the word of the week. "rage" "home" "perfect" "fall" etc.
The photos are funny, great, terrible, not related to the word at all, poignant, and whatever else. Not the most profound photo story site on the internet, but a fun one to browse... and perhaps an interesting webpage idea for the students (if they want to create something more collaborative and project-based... rather than student by student).