{"id":64,"date":"2016-10-27T04:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-10-30T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T13:24:44","slug":"focus-on-the-people-a-photojournalist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/27\/focus-on-the-people-a-photojournalist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the people, a photojournalist says"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Serina Zheng
\nphotos by Edith Lu<\/p>\n

Photographs should tell stories about people, said Pulitzer-winning journalist William Snyder in a lecture at Hong Kong Baptist University today.<\/p>\n

\u201cFocus on the people,\u201d he said nine different times during the talk.<\/p>\n

Storytelling is key, he said. Photos help the audience care about the news, he said showing images of his team\u2019s disaster coverage of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.<\/p>\n

\"William

“How do you hit that emotional core\u00a0in your readers and how do you make them care about a news story,” photojournalism William Synder asked journalism students.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe want our work to mean something, to do something, and to have impact,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most impressive thing for me is that the photos are about people, not the situations,\u201d Cristina Hu, a journalism student, said. \u201cIt is easy to understand his approach and I will keep in mind when I take photos later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another student, Joy Zhong, said, that she learned simplicity works in photojournalism. \u201cThe point is that you should always care about the people in your news stories,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Snyder has won four Pulitzer Prizes, including three in photography, and is now Professor and Chair of photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

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