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Photo Essay
Assignment by Michael A. Reyes, Bedford New Scholar 2021
Overview
Over the past few weeks you will have spent time reading about and analyzing photography in order to further develop your style, and rhetorical structure and analytical skills. You will draw on these assignments to compose an essay that contains only photos—no words!—in order to demonstrate these skills.
In this essay, you will shoot and arrange a minimum of 10 photos, using Maria Romero’s photojournalism techniques of Rule of Thirds, Leading Lines, Symmetry and Pattern, POV, Depth, and Framing to present a specific argument depending on which option you choose below.
Each of your photos will represent a specific part of a college essay. You must contain photos that represent an introduction paragraph, a thesis statement, body paragraphs (topic sentence, context, quote, analysis, transition), and a conclusion paragraph.
The order of the photos is up to you. You may consider that your argument is better served with a linear, delayed thesis statement structure to build suspense, or a more nonlinear structure that clarifies the thesis statement in the first few photos to build deep reflective thought. The choice is yours, but you must be prepared to provide a rationale for your argumentative structure in the Post-Essay #3 Reflection Assignment.
Select One Option
- "Photographic Justice”: What does resistance look like where you currently live? Or, what is something that needs to be resisted where you currently live and why?
- Behind-the-Scenes: Who is one person in your life that doesn’t get the credit they deserve? Why do they deserve more credit?
- A Special Place: Document a place that is special to you and why.
- College Student Life in 2020-21: What is your life like as a college student during this time? What should change and what should remain as school openings begin to happen?
Minimum Guidelines
Photo essays must have the minimum guidelines in order to receive full credit. Photo essays not meeting these guidelines will receive an incomplete:
- MLA 9 format for heading and page numbers
- Creative title (not the title of this assignment)
- 10 photos minimum
Student Example
Courtesy of Vanessa Cruz, Cal State LA
Courtesy of Vanessa Cruz, Cal State LA
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