Social Documentary.

   Now that I've finished for now the second assignment in this course I want to start looking for inspiration for my Major Project and to look in particular at the area of Social Documentary which I need to gain a better understanding of. To begin with I simply wanted to find some good examples of this kind of work so the easiest   way to start with is by looking in magazines and newspapers that rely heavily on this kind of work. Some of the best examples I came across were in this months edition  National Geographic, there were two articles that stood out to me the first about Africa's Albertine Rift and the second on the Sami people's way of life in Scandinavia and how it's changing. In both cases what I found interesting about the images was that you almost didn't need to read the attached articles to understand the story they're trying to get across. In the case of the Albertine Rift story I found the work extremely powerful in that you could really understand the problems associated with trying to maintain a balance in these countries between protecting the wildlife and habitats while at the same time giving a growing population the space it need to thrive, there are good examples throughout of the photographers use of expression to get across the feelings of his subject while others depict daily life in a troubled land. This is one thing I do like about this type of photography, the way in which you can capture an everyday event and make it something special but at the same time tell an individuals story with a single image if caught in the right way.