Today I want you to use your camera to denounce something socially unacceptable for you .
Close your eyes and think of something that makes you particularly uncomfortable. Some social problem that you hate intensely.
Now imagine a photograph with which you would denounce it.
Now report it.
HOW DOES IT WORK? (REMINDER)
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic.
The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, going through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies.
The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have the whole weekend to work on them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so…
WEEKLY CHALLENGE 14: SOCIAL COMPLAINT
Photography is not just fun, colors, technique, approaches and lenses. It's not just pretty models who pose making pouts. Photography is a form of expression. With a photograph you tell a story, cause an effect, share an argument, convince an idea, transmit values. You produce a print. Photography is a tremendously powerful form of expression. With a photograph you can change the world. Trust me.
Today's challenge is to learn to use photography as the form of expression that it is. Today, we will make a social complaint. You have to produce a photo in which you clearly denounce a social problem. You can portray it directly, or in a subtle way if you prefer. The queue of unemployed at the Employment Office, the signs carried by those outraged by the corruption of politicians, or a dirty and broken bottle of alcohol that represents drug addiction. Look around you, it is not difficult to find inspiration and ideas, just look at tonight's news.
To participate in this week's challenge, upload your photo to the Facebook wall of the Photographer's Blog: In the description of the photo, please mention the keyword "Social Complaint Challenge" followed by a title of your choice.
ALTERNATIVE MEANS TO PARTICIPATE
For those of you who are not from Facebook, I have enabled new social networks to participate.
- Flickr: Accessing the Photographer's Blog Group Wall and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a title and be sure to mention “Social Reporting Challenge” in it.
- Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #RetoDenunciaSocialBDF
If you think you can change the world, I'll wait for you in the challenge.
UPDATE
A little later than normal, here I am, with a selection of photographs as a form of social denunciation that you have expressed over the past week through the Facebook wall, Flickr and Twitter. There have been complaints of all kinds: child abuse, human trafficking, animal abuse, poverty and, of course, the subject of corruption could not be missing.
I rescue this snapshot of Patricio Hermosilla about the difficulties that many elderly people have to endure. The photo is simple but its communicative charge is easy to perceive. Within the technical difficulties that social protest photography normally presents, the photographer was able to capture a correctly composed photo (rule of thirds). The sepia filter, which I had not used but there are tastes for that, adds a more emotional tone that helps to contextualize the photo. Congratulations.
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