Documentary photography
During our preffional studies lesson we were asked to chose an area of photography we were interested in and find how how you'd get the job and how you'd make a living working in that area of photography. i chose to research into documentary photography. My initial understanding of assumptions of working in documentary photography were that you'd either have to work freelance and hope your work was bought or you'd have to be hired by an company such as a magazine or newspaper who would send you out on assignments and pay you.
When researching I found that its not easy to get noticed in the documentary industry and one way of doing so is actually to take part in a lot of photography competitions in order to get your work noticed and to hopefully win cash prizes in order to fund your own documentary projects.
I found that photography foundations and organisations exist where they are created to help fund documentary photographers, allowing them to have the money to produce their own documentary projects. One of this organisations is the Magnum Foundation
Magnum Foundation
http://magnumfoundation.org/info/
The aftermath project
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