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Understanding the various types of photo essays

Understanding the various types of photo essays

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Understanding the various types of photo essays

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- There's a number of different types of photo stories you can do. I just wanna lay out some of those different types. And by putting them in categories, I don't want you to think that these are the only types that you can do. Rather, I wanna give you some ideas of different types of photo projects that you can work on, or some different types of photo stories. The most common photo stories that I do or I get assignments for are things documenting people or events, and I've got a couple examples of these I'd like to show you. First off, I wanna show you what I would consider a photo story about an event, and this, I went to Japan, I can't remember how many years ago now. A number of years ago, I went to Japan to document the aftermath of a tsunami, and I was there for about a month, month and a half. And this is really a project that is not character-driven. There's people in these photographs, like in this initial image, we've got a group of soldiers carrying a body out from an area…

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