Becoming a Great Essayist Season 1 Episode 11 The Visual Essay: Words + Pictures

Writing a visual essay requires you to detach yourself from how you have been taught to view images your whole life. Rather than passively observing and judging, you must challenge yourself to get into the visual. Once you start writing, though, the goal is to not recreate the exact image that you saw, but instead to reimagine it-to view it anew.