The World Through Different Lenses

USC student Amanda Fallon explores how the “insiders” view is changing the paradigm in photographic storytelling: Technological advances are constantly changing and reshaping the ways in which photography is used. New concepts like participatory photography and citizen photojournalism have changed the dynamics of photography. First, technology has enabled many people to own individual digital cameras, which is what led to the emergence of citizen photojournalism. Read more

A Modern FSA?

Los Angeles, April 2009 – It would be easy to dismiss the latest group of efforts by various organizations and enterprising individuals to organize a modern day Farm Securities Administration (FSA) documentary project. For all the good intentions that lay behind its creation, many have come to believe that the FSA was essentially a propaganda arm of the New Deal, simultaneously raising awareness about the plight of fellow Americans, but also persuading us to believe in the social policies of the Roosevelt Administration. Read more

Visual Communication & Social Change

USC students interested in how documentary and participant-produced photography is used to  affect social change may enroll this Spring in Visual Communication & Social Change, a popular course at USC taught by Jim Hubbard, founder of internationally renowned Shooting Back and current creative director of Venice Arts.Visual Communication & Social Change

A Wing, a Prayer and a Cell Phone

Los Angeles, January 19, 2009 – Two momentous, newsworthy events occurred when the Airbus 320 went down in the Hudson River last week: the event itself and coverage of the event. The crash was nothing short of a miracle and, surely, anyone who has ever flown reacted emotionally to a gripping photograph of stranded passengers standing in water on the airplane’s wings or in rafts. In fact, the passengers on flight 1549 appeared to be walking on water with the help of the plane’s wings and, perhaps, a prayer.
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