Photojournalism in Global Business

A photograph can be the element that brings interest to a news story and captures the essence of a specific situation. Here are a couple of photos I took that illustrate various aspects utilized by photojournalists.

This is one of the newest commercial shopping malls in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. The first thing you notice when you look at this picture is the framing of the escalators. It draws the focus inward, where a brightly lit, orange-hued stand exudes a sort of warmth that makes one think of the holiday season (when this photo was taken). Throughout, there are many lines that your eyes want to follow: along the floor, the poles, and the escalators. There is a lot going on here, but at the same time, you know what the subject is.

Here we have a skyscraper in the financial district of New York City, taken earlier this year. It is first and foremost a portrayal of linear perspective; the building gets smaller and smaller as it approaches the sky. While the building is gray and the ones around it do not appear to have any interesting, out of the ordinary coloring, there are pops of vivid yellow in the brick. By juxtaposing a different building such as this one to ordinary-looking ones, and with the rule of thirds in play, there is nothing else here that you want to look at. The skyscraper dominates the image.