Affective Frames: Interpreting Emotion in Sportstar Magazine Photography

Author(s)	Ms. Dharshini R, Dr. Manikkam K
Country	India
Abstract	The paper examines the role of sports news photography as a key outcome of capturing brief periods of tragedy, glory and human soul. It makes the active athletic action a humane art by going beyond normal reporting in order to express the intensity of emotions and the narration of stories that would otherwise remain untold. This paper is exploring the artistic and emotional nature of sporting photography in the case of visual storytelling of photojournalists in capturing sporting events. This research tries to comprehend the effects of sports image on media aesthetic, the perception of the audience, and the cultural memory through the evaluation of the means and the outcomes. The research is founded on the combination of a qualitative study of the popular images in sports and theoretical frameworks of visual communication and emotional semiotics.
Keywords	Sports photography, emotions, visual journalism, artistic dimension, media representation, emotional storytelling.
Field	Sociology > Journalism / Media
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-25
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.72414

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