Advanced Photojournalism & Documentary Photography – JO537

This graduate & undergraduate long-form photojournalism class taught at Boston University by Greg Marinovich, is an opportunity to examine, probe and create work on a single story through a semester with intense instructor and peer responses to ongoing edits of the work. Editing your own work to its best potential is a key learning goal. Photographic books are discussed as inspiration.

Below are representative images from student essays, Fall 2018.

Behind the scenes of a drag show at Jacques Cabaret, Violencia ExclamationPoint prepares for a show.
- Olivia Falcigno

Two people chat in Ralph's Diner in Worcester at a skatepark fundraiser. A community built and maintained skatepark under a bridge was fenced off and demolished by the city and skateboarders petitioned for a site for a new one that they offered to create at their own expense. 

- Brian Wheeler

Balloons decorate an event room in the basement of the South Shore Plaza project, Boston. Affordable housing in central areas is a major problem for middle and lower income families. 

- Till Kaeslin

New York City's Coney Island offers something for everyone, a place to re-imagine yourself, if only for a while.
- Seven Wu

Crystal Evans-Pradhan has Mitochondrial Myopathy. She has had to use a wheelchair for the last 15 years, but after the birth of her daughter, now eight, she discovered a fuller life.
- Ke Tang

Kneeland St, Boston. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature, but industrial views, suburban sprawl and everyday scenes not usually given a second glance also make modern landscapes. Landscape photography is done for different reasons.
- Dengfeng Yang

The son-in-law of human cannonball Miser ahead of a performance at the Topsfield Fair, Mass.  

- Maddie Malhotra

Worcester is the second largest city in Massachusetts and a highly populated city. It is not an abandoned mill town, as some of the singles may suggest. 

- Brian Wheeler

Timothy Muise was a teenager when his father drove past a prison and said, “If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’re gonna end up here.” He began doing heroin at age 19 and “got involved with some violent people.” This image is part of his memories of before prison
- Chloe Grinberg

An entrance to a home in a trailer home in Boston, MA. Despite the high average income in Boston, there are trailer parks for those who cannot or choose not to afford more formal housing.
- Demi Du

At midnight, the clock moves forward; the city removes the camouflage, people are on the road, trains are still busy steaming along the track. Who are the people who commute at this hour?
- Yuxuan Pang

Pownal, New Hampshire. Personal experience can be documented in a fleeting moment. I try to understand the things I photograph in a broader relationship to the land and social existence. Through the banal depiction of the everyday scenes, I seek to explore the relationship between me and America.
- Dengfeng Yang