Zeynep Devrim Gursel asserts that "professional image making is essential to processes of worldmaking"(p.13). Photography creates meaning through "the act of looking" which itself is a cultural construct and that "news images" are "fiction"(P.14). "Image Brokers is an attempt to understand …. the ideologies of worldmaking by which categories such as "Africa" …. "refugee camps"…. are constructed, validated and circulated." These places which we learn from new photography are "understood as both a location in space and a rank in a system of social categories" (P.26). In Chapter 3, Gursel talks about the judgment involved in evaluating "problematic visualization of world news" and how "an image corresponds to a visual expectations on the part of imagined readers…"(P.135). She gives many examples of the processes and the underlying values and practices in pairing news photos to new stories (p.134-145).
Examine ONE the following three news photography in the news stories and investigate the process of worldmaking that is taking place in these photographs, their captions, and to a lesser extent, the textual stories. In other words, examine how these photographs guide us in understanding of the world and all the facts, values and judgments associated with the act of worldmaking through photojournalism.
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