Abstract

MELO, Catarina  and  LOPES, Felisbela. The Influence of Emotion in Humanitarian Journalism: The Perspective of Portuguese Photojournalists in Ukraine. Vista [online]. 2023, n.12, e023009.  Epub Jan 30, 2024. ISSN 2184-1284.  https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4660.

Immersed in a context of social emergency, the concept of humanitarian journalism (Bunce et al., 2019, 2022) currently takes on new contours that give it a hitherto neglected pertinence and vitality. This article examines humanitarian journalism's significance by exploring emotion's impact in constructing humanitarian information. Our investigation is based on a survey conducted with a group of 12 Portuguese photojournalists deployed to Ukraine in the first months of the conflict, between February and April 2022. After their return, they showcased part of their work in the initiative Diakuyu - Obrigado, promoted by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores and the cultural association CC11. The exhibition opened to the public on May 20 at Galeria Carlos Paredes, curated by Alexandre Almeida, with a selection of photographs by Adriano Miranda, André Luís Alves, Daniel Rodrigues, Eduardo Leal, João Porfírio, Miguel A. Lopes, Miguel Manso, Nuno Veiga, Paulo Nunes dos Santos, Rui Caria, Rui Duarte Silva and Tiago Miranda. The study examines the intricate and debatable role of emotion in journalism, focusing on the complexity of its position within journalistic reporting and whether photojournalists should be allowed to acknowledge their own perspectives in relation to the observed reality. The study reflects the complexity around the role that emotion should take in journalistic reporting and the admissibility of the photojournalist recognising their perspective before the observed reality.

Keywords : emotion; photography; photojournalism; humanitarian journalism; Ukraine.

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