Impact of the Photography

This article discussed about the power of photos which reflects people in Dubrovnik back in the early 1990s and will be publicize at The War Photo Limited Gallery. It is to dedicate the exclusive of the war photography which it is taken few years back in order to allow tourists and people to recall what had happened years ago at the beautiful and major tourist spot, Dubrovnik.



In today’s environment, the role of photograph which is not only restricted to keep the memory alive and recalling for the past, but also getting important in role of learning and elaboration (Bamford 2010). In other words, the usage of the photograph not only shows in the newspaper or magazine but also in other sector as well. This can be further proven by Burmark (2010) stated that, in the engineering, architecture, computer trades and even health care professions are dealing with visual literacy as the role of photograph has becoming equally important as compare with the written text. The reason why the photograph plays an important role in today’s environment is mainly due to the advancement of the technology, the emergent of internet which leads to the changing of the people’s living.



Biasness of Photography


Even though the photograph plays an important role as it is more impressive than words, however there are some biasness that the audience have to be bear in mind while interpreting the photograph. According to Brown (2009), the documentary photograph is not merely a reflection of reality as it is only showing one piece of the full event. In the light of this, the audience will tend to have a limited view of the whole landscape. Moreover, the photographer will tend to only show the photograph which they want it to be seen and the way they want it to be interpret by the audience. In addition to that, due to the advancement of the technology, the photograph can be easily edited by the photographer in order to achieve the desirable outcome. Therefore, sometimes the audience would not actually know whether the photograph is true or not but only believing it.

(This photograph shows how to editing skill will be able to change the original meaning of the photograph)

In conclusion, even though the role of photograph has become more significant as most of the audience will prefer visual than written literacy. Nevertheless the audience should be aware of the biasness of the photograph in order to interpret it correctly. Also the photographer should be more ethics not to change or mislead the facts while publishing the photograph.

Reference List

Bamford, A, 2010, ‘ The Visual Literacy White Paper’, viewed 15 June 2010, http://www.adobe.com/uk/education/pdf/adobe_visual_literacy_paper.pdf>.

Brown, B, 2009, ‘The Power of Photography’, viewed 15 June 2010, http://www.jbualumni.com/magazine/pdf/BBwinter08.pdf>.