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Dean, Faculty of Communication Sciences
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona)
Photography, Photojournalism, Visual arts, Autobiography, Illness Visual Narratives, Stigmatization, Autofiction, Medical humanities, Research Integrity, Ethics, Visual representation of pain, illness, death and grief.
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Rebeca Pardo and Montse Morcate
Profesional de la Informacion, ISSN: 13866710, eISSN: 16992407, Published: 15 March 2022
Ediciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL
The State of Alarm period declared by the Spanish Government due to the coronavirus crisis has had an exhaustive media coverage. However, it is observed how the visual story / narrative that has been published in the newspapers goes beyond the health field, focusing mainly on aspects of a social, political or economic nature. The types of images with the greatest presence in the representation of the harshest weeks of the pandemic determine the type of coverage, causing some relevant aspects to be minimized or invisibilized, and conditions the impact and the understanding of the severity of the disease in the society, in a particularly difficult and decisive moment such as the confinement of citizens. In the same way, the published images will have a later impact as a document by becoming part of the historical memory in the future. This article focuses on the analysis of the images published during the State of Alarm in three of the most relevant and broader scope national newspapers (El país, La vanguardia and El mundo), which is complemented by semi-directed interviews with several photojournalists who have covered Covid-19 during its first stage. The cataloging of the photographs in various categories is intended to observe the type of story that has been made visible of the Covid-19 (assessing the way in which this pandemic is being shown as an epidemic or syndemic), as well as to detect some of the most present and/or recurring visual representations and identify which are the most prominent absences.
Montse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo
Mortality, ISSN: 13576275, eISSN: 14699885, Published: 2022
Informa UK Limited
Rebeca Pardo and Montse Morcate
Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices, Pages: 70-85, Published: 20 May 2016
Routledge