A young woman in labor with her first child in the maternity unit of St. Terese Hospital, Hinche, Haiti. Hinche is located on Haiti's Central Plateau, the poorest region of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates, and mortality rate in children under five. (Courtesy of B. D. Colen. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. B. D. Colen
MIT Course Number
21W.749 / CMS.935
As Taught In
Spring 2016
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
In this course, you will be exposed to the work of many great documentary photographers and photojournalists, as well as to writing about the documentary tradition. Further, throughout the term, you will hone your photographic skills and 'eye,' and you will work on a photo documentary project of your own, attempting to reduce a tiny area of the moving world to a set of still images that convey what the viewer needs to know about what you saw—without hearing the sounds, smelling the odors, experiencing what was happening outside the viewfinder, and without seeing the motion.
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