Between text and photo: sensitive strategies in the narrative dynamics of Bru Rovira

Authors

  • Mauro de Souza Ventura Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"
  • Tayane Aidar Abib Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2020.222.13

Abstract

This article investigates the journalistic work of the Catalan reporter Bru Rovira, in order to highlight the sensitive strategies that, under a dialogical-affective look (Buber, 1979; Medina, 2006), cross his narrative dynamics and tie his writing and photografic records. Specifically, we analyze the text-photo set that makes up Rovira’s (2006) reports on Liberia and Rwanda, in the post-Cold War period, with the aim of reflecting on the intersubjectivity experience mobilized in these pieces and to point out how the media image, like the texts, can be configured as an instance of encounter with the Other.

Keywords: Journalistic narrative. Photojournalism. Africa. Bru Rovira.

Author Biographies

Mauro de Souza Ventura, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"

Professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação da Unesp. Doutor em Teoria Literária.

Tayane Aidar Abib, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"

Jornalista. Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho".

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Published

2020-03-28

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2020): Maio/Agosto

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Articles

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