This hands-on, project-based, eight-week course will help you to develop photojournalism skills, necessary for a stand-alone photos, photo stories and multimedia storytelling.

Visual presentation, in general, is absolutely essential in multimedia stories and this course of photojournalism can be regarded as an opening  to a wider course of multimedia journalism. 

Throughout the course you will develop basic technical  skills which include using camera, setting exposition, lightning and composition, covering basic aspects of photography relevant to all kind of cameras from film to digital.

This course will also explore general principle of photography. Technical skills developed within this course will help you to understand and use any type of camera. 

Every new topic includes theory followed by practical assignments, so that you have an opportunity to learn through practice. 

In the second part of the course  you will use photography as one of the basic tools of visual storytelling. The course offers the tips and techniques useful for solving most common problems and situations photojournalists face during their professional career.  The course participants will work on the news stories of personal choice. 

By the end of the course the trainers expect to review developed photo-essays/stories, which may even become a part of future, bigger multimedia story projects.