From the course: Learning Photojournalism and Photo Essays
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What is a photo essay?
From the course: Learning Photojournalism and Photo Essays
What is a photo essay?
- A photo story or a photo essay is really just a collection of images that tell a story and propel a narrative over multiple images. That could be either a diptych or a triptych, like in an art exhibit at a gallery. It's really just more than one image that we can learning something through the characters that are there. That could be a book project, a long-term project, a short-term project, and it can be something that you're doing for work or a personal project. For work it might be for a newspaper or a magazine or an online gallery. A personal project it could be the story, for instance I've got a daughter in Girl Scouts, of her selling cookies. It could be something as simple as that as long as it's telling a story. For work, I've done photo essays for years. One of these work photo essays that I've done was with National Geographic Adventure magazine down in Antarctica. And it was a project that I did with an organization called the Sea Shepherd. They were down in Antarctica…
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