Knowing your First Amendment rights is important to new photojournalist

        “Congress shall make no law…”

According to firstamendmentcenter.org, The First Amendment is a blue print of our personal freedoms that gives us the freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition.

As a photojournalism student, the First Amendment is significant to me not just because it gives us those five freedoms. As an African American female, it gives me the freedom that others before me didn't have the chance to experience without being silenced.

Now, with the exception of censorship, myself and other minorities have a much larger voice in our country, which brings great meaning to the term the melting pot.

With growing social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and Tumblr, many of today's youth, minorities are taking more advantage of their First Amendments rights and freedoms.

The history of news educates photojournalist the future of photojournalism

On April 1877 photography and journalism made a beautiful creation called photojournalism. One of the first daily newspapers was The Daily Graphic. I found the process of the photographer giving the artist the images to draw interesting, because the artist can change the details of the image if they wanted. Which is similar to the software Photoshop. 

            There were many pioneer photojournalists that changed and paved the way for photojournalist today. The photojournalists I found intriguing are; Frances Benjamin Johnston for being the first woman photographer, Arthur Fellig (Weegee) for using a police scanner to be the first on the scene, Erich Salomon for capturing those candid moments that make a picture interesting, and Gordon Parks for telling the story of racism to the African American community in the 1940s. Photojournalist has came a long way since 1877 and is growing even more with new social media that provides us with news.