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Documentary Photography

I don't know if it ever happened to you...but I've always hated the kind of photographers who, regardless of the  situation,  make horrendous movements like images's predators, take out their big camera, click it, and go away with vanity.
 
Unfortunately my opinion on this matter doesn't count, because usually, they achieve to take the most brilliant and with social impact photos.  A dichotomy between the artistic world of beauty and reality.
 
When I say documentary photography I'm not talking only about war or politic situations (mostly known as journalistic photography), but the one that takes care about capturing a real moment on a precise occasion.
This thing that photography does: to capture a unique situation and immortalize it forever.
 
Taking documentary photographs is not and easy task. Knowing the technique is basic. Then... learning and understanding the behavior of color, lights, shadows. Choosing the right shutter velocity. And to frame correctly. All this in a couple of seconds, otherwise the moment "flies away".
 
Then... concept!.
Documentary photography takes care of pictures of the real world, our quotidian life and more.
With the aim of showing an idea, of making a statement. Documentary photography is ideologic. An ideologic vision of reality. There is now documentary photographer who does not have an position about what he is capturing.
 
So to those people who say "What a beautiful pic!!" when they see a picture of a non-feed child, I say that maybe you are only looking to the photo on its surface, because they didn't get that besides the pic there is a real situation going on. Besides there is a human being, making click. A human being, with an idea, a concept.
 
Below, some of my pics while I was shooting some documentaries. They are not about non-feed children but, I am open to hear you voice.
Documentary Photography
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Documentary Photography

Beside a documentary photography there is a real life event, a human being, and a concept. We should never forget it.

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