Photojournalism... The Forgotten Art
Do you know that there's a lot of very good work in the photojournalism category of the photography-gallery? And most people here just ignore and overlook the whole gallery for four reasons:

Many people do not know what photojournalism is at all. Photojournalism is photography intended to describe or document in pictures the events of individuals, groups of people, governments, history, and so on. Photojournalism gives us newsworthy photographs wherein the primary motivation is to recount a story, the photographer never disturbing the natural events in the scene. And no, your actual make-up or your new puppy is not newsworthy.

About 60-80% of the stuff in there is just in the wrong category which doesn’t make it joy to browse through it, because all you see at first sight are snapshots of a lot of different things (mostly self-portraits of female teenagers ) and no photojournalism. I'm really happy that ^Moonbeam13 started to take care of that, but in my honest opinion it's almost impossible to get that gallery cleared alone if nothing else changes. No single gallery director has the time to move about 130-200 deviations away - every single day. May be a new structure?

A lot of people do not put their good journalistic deviations in the photojournalism gallery - either because they don't know that it exists or because there's just too much crap in it - see the point above.

People are scared to see the real, sometimes hard life. They prefer to take a look at bloody stuff, but only if it is fake blood. Don't forget: real things are happening in the world, and it is our task to document the actual life on our planet to make sure that the knowledge of the mankind doesn't get lost. Or do you want to have a new Hitler, because everybody forgot what happened in World War II? A loss of information about our past is always a loss of liberty. Help to make sure our children will live in a free and peaceful world.

This will be the first of a lot of features (please have a look into my coming journals) of the excellent work in the photojournalism gallery. Although some of the photos will probably make you sad - have a look at them. Comment and give your s. That's how real life is.

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~cainerose


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~luizcarlosjr


~swengali


If you know some work that is worth to be featured or if you have suggestions how to make the photojournalism gallery better - please let me know! You can also fill in your ideas into ^Moonbeam13's forum. Help to improve photojournalism at deviantART!