Bitter Harvest, the media is the message

In the picture of the woman with the two children, the media chosen, black and white, serves to strongly support the feeling of desolation and hopelessness captured in the image. The empty dish, the lack of a father figure and the makeshift tent are also a great help in demonstrating the hard times these people are going through. Also, the angle that the photographer decided to use seems to be the one of a person looking with pity at the suffering and pain that his subjects are living.

In the second picture, the color media brings an impression of hope and life to the image. Even though the sky is really dark and cloudy, the sun still shines and the man and the woman seem to be looking ahead, into the future, into better times. They stand together with a confident look, like they are saying "these are hard times , but we will get through them". By shooting the picture at this angle, the photographer makes us looks at his subjects like they are on a podium, like they are heroes. But the same picture taken with black and white film would have not had the same hopeful impact.