Photojournalism
Fall & Spring
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Communication,
Journalism,
and
Media Studies
Photographer Diane Arbus once described the camera as a license into people's lives. This class requires that you take full advantage of your Danish setting and immerse yourself in the lives of those around you. Working as a photojournalist is a challenging endeavor and yields growth in personal leadership. The focus is highly intercultural and anthropological in that students will be spending a significant portion of the course outside of the classroom independently interacting with and reporting on the life of a self-selected subject, in the attempt to capture the essence of this person in a three-picture story.
Combined with the field work, the course offers critical perspectives on cultural categories, stereotypes and prejudices through in-class analysis and discussion of the works of well-known photojournalists, including the professor’s own work. The course concludes with a photo exhibition to demonstrate your ability to skillfully communicate with images in a reporting context.
Field Studies
- Politiken
- Hear about the real-life decisions made in photojournalism from the photo editor at Denmark’s most circulated newspaper.
- Lecture from a Magnum photographer
- Denmark’s only member of the international photography cooperative, Magnum Photos, will speak to the class about his work.
Instructors
-
Anders Clausen
Freelance photographer. Represented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, and the Museum of Photographic Arts, Odense. Published ‘Postcards from Paradise: Refugees in Denmark,’ 2003. With DIS since 2006.
