Photojournalism

Code:

CC021

Acronym:

FJOR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Communication Sciences

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Communication Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CC	67	Study plan	3	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Introduce theoretical, technical, and conceptual tools for press photography.

Recognise photographic practices throughout its history, encouraging the development of work that explores the medium's specificity and articulates an autonomous and critical discourse.

To promote the ability to analyze photography in the media.

To discuss photojournalism's aesthetic and ethical issues in the context of media convergence and globalization.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understanding the photojournalist's role and responsibility in producing information in different media 

Assimilating the basic production techniques of journalistic photography and its articulation processes in the media.

Developing analytical ability to read images in the contemporary press.

Working method

Presencial

Program

_The press photographer:
Historical context, working methods, and paradigms.

_Photography as a document:
Concepts and mechanisms of representational functioning.

_Photojournalistic language and practice:
Genres, approaches and conceptual, formal and descriptive elements of the image.

_Photography in the press:
Text and image relationship, composition, narrative.
Current media and practices for capturing, editing, and disseminating information.

_The social and ethical challenges of photojournalism in digital culture:
Manipulation and disinformation.

Mandatory literature

Kenneth Kobré; Photojournalism. ISBN: 978-0-7506-8593-1
Golden , Reuel; Photojournalism 1855 to the present : editor.s choice. ISBN: 0-7892-0896-2
Panzer , Mary; Things as they are. ISBN: 978-1-905712-01-4
Sontag, Susan; Olhando o Sofrimento dos Outros, Quetzal Editores, 2015
Steel , Andy; Photojournalism : the world.s top photographers and the stories behind their images. ISBN: 978-2-88893-092-1

Complementary Bibliography

Batchen, Geoffrey ; Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999
Lubben, Kristen (Org.); Magnum Contatos, Instituto Moreira Salles, 2012
Shore, Stephen ; A Natureza das Fotografias, Cosac & Naify, 2014. ISBN: 9788540507043
Jorge Pedro Sousa; Fotojornalismo
Jorge Pedro Sousa; Uma^história crítica do fotojornalismo ocidental. ISBN: 85-85775-55-6
Langton , Loup; Photojournalism and today.s news : creating visual reality. ISBN: 978-1-4051-7896-9
Vilém Flusser; Ensaio sobre a fotografia. ISBN: 972-708-513-x

Teaching methods and learning activities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	90,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Elaboração de projeto	121,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance of 75% of classes.

Timely completion and timely submission of all mandatory exercises and projects.

Calculation formula of final grade

Digital portfolio (individual) 50%

Photo documentary (collective) 50%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

As provided in the FLUP Evaluation Regulations.