Ian MacLellan

documentary photojournalist and geologist

Tag: photojournalism

Power of the Photographic Essay

I have been thinking a lot recently about the power of photographic essays to create change and influence the way the viewer thinks about the world. I think the power of photography now is to show people something they have never seen before and then allowing the viewer to make decisions on how they interact [...]

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Kakuma Refugee Camp Free Press

Pictures from a story we did up way north in Kenya. It’s a nine hour bus ride from the nearest real town, which doesn’t count the 7 hours you can spend waiting for the bus to leave or the 6 hours you spend getting to the bus stop. Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya Kakuma Refugee Camp [...]

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Photography Blogs I Follow

I follow approximately 300 feeds on my Google Reader and feel its a useful tool to gauge what’s happening in the world of photography and be exposed to creative new content, while learning a little culture and science. I have gone through all my feeds and picked out some of my favorite photography ones and [...]

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Tufts Exposure Students Blog about the Development of their Stories

Tufts “[EXPOSURE] is a program of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University dedicated to the advancement of human rights through the instruction, promotion, and encouragement of photojournalism and documentary studies.” They are currently doing their first local workshop in Boston under the leadership of the great, Jim MacMillan, who recently won a pulitzer [...]

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