Stella also gave us an assignment. It was to find out what is going on in Oaxaca Mexico and e-mail her about it. Why? Because information on current political events is essentially unavailable in our news media.
After talking to her about the general aspects of photojournalism we discussed how the profession has changed, and the differences in it since the Vietnam war. It is a very difficult profession because of the necessity of approval from your editor and the higher-ups of the publisher you work for. All photojournalists are "censored" by their superiors which makes their jobs very difficult. Sometimes their work in its edited form could be considered propaganda as it doesn't necessarily report the whole truth, but the truth that corporate America wants to represent. She feels that because of the heavy "editing", books are a much more truthful and accurate form of spreading information.
by Annie Grace and Alex
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Stella was my personal favorite block in Boston. I liked her stories she shared with us and I enjoyed how strongly she cared about her work and how she was trying to make a difference. In this day and age its hard to put all your effort into the justice of photography. She talked about how if you work for New York times they own the copyright of all the pictures. So if theyre are very disturbing pictures taken in various countries... New York times will not publish any of these because they dont want negative reviews and for everyone to see the grievance. Also the press doesn't want true violence or photo journalist's real story's because they will get bad reveiews. People risk there life in these countries and can't even publish the truth... Stella Johnson was the most persuasive and argumentative speakers and It really helped me learn about these worldy problems
-Rachel Rollins
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