FTV Blog 3: Photographic Journalism: Reuters Full Focus

I stumbled across a series of photo albums on Reuters the other day and was awe-struck instantly. Some of these photos are incredible; simply stunning. I often overlook photographs as a medium to look up, view, or 'consume', but these completely change my opinion. I would rather have a hard copy of some of these than buy a good novel or DVD or music album. 'A picture can tell a thousand words', well it's more than that, isn't it? Photography--especially in journalism, I think--has a capacity to invoke emotions and stimulate the mind beyond words. Interestingly, I came across this around the same time I started using flickr for photography class. While it occured to me to 'flick' through photos on flickr, just highly-rated or popular ones on its home page, I am completely sure that I prefer the photos found here. Not only are they often equally artistic or aesthetically appealing, but they are journalistic, documenting real life, events and emotion in the extreme corners of our civilisation. These images are the as powerful as possible without being there live on the site.