What motivates photojournalists

What motivates photojournalist are very different for each person some may do it for the fame and the chance to get their names recognized, others do it for the love of art while other photojournalist it because they want to and they can, other photojournalist do it of the fame and name recognition Greg Marinovich did it to let the whole world know what was going on in South Africa

photo taken by Greg Marinovich

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here is a photo taken by Greg Marinovich, he spent most of his time covering the conflict that was going on in South-Africa between the whites and the blacks. this was a trying time in the history of South Africa the horrific scene like the image above. Marinovich was bale to capture to tell the story of what was happened over there. his motivation was the let the rest of the world see what he was seeing and it times it was dangerous but he did it.



photo taken by Yakubu

He is simply motivated by the fact he wants people to see his country Rwanda for the beautiful country that is.


photo taken by Yakubu

In this image he is showing a street kid how to use the camera he want to teach children how to overcome tragedy and still make something beautiful. http://www.vayando.com/rwanda/kigali/street-photography-with-yakubu/ Yakubu does not want to make people feel sorry for him or his country but just help then learn about his culture and how they have survived.


photo by Dan Eldon

Somalia image of conflict

Here is this photo is Dan Eldon in the middle with children from Somalia where he spent time covering what was happening there it seem like all photojournalist are motivated whether is self interest or to try and educate the world they each have their own way of being motivated and how they passed long what they find.



what motivates me are my
 Family.
Education
steady income