Ensayo foto periodístico enfocado en los rostros y expresiones de la protesta social, a través del lente fotográfico.

Abstract

Social protest has been one of the main tools used by the people to express their nonconformity, denounce needs and injustices and demand their rights, all this exhausting the dialogue channels and formal channels established by governments. At present, the exercise of this right has been involved in a chain of rumors where the misinformation generated mostly by the media, which, acting under political, economic and social lines, have ended up stigmatizing it, sowing in the collective the wrong image that relates it to vandalism. It is from photography where the search is undertaken to capture the hidden reality behind each expression of protest, where stories, motives and circumstances are lodged that a certain part of society does not know and should understand. That is why this Journalistic Photo Essay "The faces of social protest, through the photographic lens" focuses on the claim of this right, making its protagonists visible. Founded on theoretical bases such as Photojournalism, Journalistic Photo Essay, Social Protest, Photography, Communication for Social Change and Communication and Culture, there is an arduous research and field work where in the end a documentary and photographic production consisting of 24 main and 6 additional photographs, which show the rationale of each of them, the context in which they are developed and the clear difference from what has been erroneously linked.