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  1. 23 Photo Essay Ideas and Examples (to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing!)

    Here are some handy essay ideas and examples for inspiration! 1. A day in the life. Your first photo essay idea is simple: Track a life over the course of one day. You might make an essay about someone else's life. Or the life of a location, such as the sidewalk outside your house.

  2. How to Create an Engaging Photo Essay (with Examples)

    A photo essay is a series of images that share an overarching theme as well as a visual and technical coherence to tell a story. Some people refer to a photo essay as a photo series or a photo story - this often happens in photography competitions.

  3. 18 Immersive Photo Essay Examples & Tips

    A photo essay tells a story or evokes emotion through a series of photographs. The essays allow you to be creative and fully explore an idea. Such essays exist in a variety of forms - from photos only to images with brief comments or written essays accompanied by shots. Choose a photo essay example that you can easily do based on your ...

  4. Advice for an Unforgettable Photo Essay

    Photo essays can showcase any topic, from nature photography to portraiture to wedding shots. We spoke to a few photographers to get their perspectives on what makes a good photo essay, and their tips for how any photographer can get started in this medium. Here are six steps to follow to create a photo essay that tells a memorable story.

  5. How to Create a Photo Essay in 9 Steps (with Examples)

    Choose an idea, hone your unique perspective on it, then start applying the 9 simple steps from above. The life of a plant or animal (your favorite species, a species living in your yard, etc) The many shapes of a single species (a tree species, a bird species, etc) How a place changes over time.

  6. What is a Photo Essay? 9 Photo Essay Examples You Can Recreate

    4. Event Photo Essay. Events are happening in your local area all the time, and they can make great photo essays. With a little research, you can quickly find many events that you could photograph. There may be bake sales, fundraisers, concerts, art shows, farm markets, block parties, and other non profit event ideas.

  7. 17 Awesome Photo Essay Examples You Should Try Yourself

    Top 17 Photo Essay Examples. Here are some fantastic ideas to get you inspired to create your own photo essays! 17. Photograph a Protest. Protests tend to be lively events. You will find people standing, moving, and holding banners and signs. This is a great way to practice on a moving crowd.

  8. How to Create a Photo Essay

    A photo essay is composed of a diversity of views, angles, and focal lengths. While masters like Henri Cartier-Bresson could capture a photo essay with a single prime lens, in his case a 50mm, the ...

  9. How to Create a Photo Essay: Step-by-Step Guide With Examples

    Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 5 min read. Photo essays tell a story in pictures, and there are many different ways to style your own photo essay. With a wide range of topics to explore, a photo essay can be thought-provoking, emotional, funny, unsettling, or all of the above, but mostly, they should be unforgettable.

  10. How to Make a Photo Essay: 5 Tips for Impactful Results

    1. Find a topic you care about. Every good photo essay should start with an idea. Otherwise, you'll be shooting without a purpose - and while such an approach may eventually lead to an interesting series of photos, it's far, far easier to begin with a topic and only then take out your camera. As I emphasized above, a photo essay can be ...

  11. Essays About Photography: Top 5 Examples Plus Prompts

    This was done as a way of mourning; the subjects were made to look as if they were merely asleep to give their loved ones comfort that they had passed on peacefully and happily. Eventually, a reduction in the death rate led to the end of this practice. 5. Fashion photography by Sara Page.

  12. The 10 Best Photo Essays of the Month

    A compilation of the 10 most interesting photo essays published online in August, as curated by Mikko Takkunen. Photojournalism Links selects, each month, the best photography published online.

  13. PDF Storytelling with Photographs: How to Create a Photo Essay

    Simply put, a photo essay is a way of telling a story through a series of photographs, by one photographer, and may be as little as three or four images or as many as 20-30 or even more. A picture story, on the other hand, is usually a series of photographs by two or more photographers. The images in a photo essay are ordered in a specific way ...

  14. Essay on Photography

    Photography can be a lot of fun. It lets you be creative and can even turn into a hobby or a job. You can take pictures of your friends, pets, or trips you go on. With photography, you can explore new places and meet new people. The best part is, you can start at any age and keep learning and enjoying it your whole life.

  15. Photo essay

    A photo essay is a form of visual storytelling that develops a narrative across a series of photographs. It originated during the late 1920s in German illustrated journals, initially presenting stories in the objective, distanced tone of news reporting. The photo essay gained wide popularity with the growth of photographically illustrated magazines such as VU (launched in Paris in 1928), LIFE ...

  16. W. Eugene Smith: Master of the Photo Essay

    With "Spanish Village" (1951), "Nurse Midwife" (1951), and his essay on Albert Schweitzer (1954), "Country Doctor" is first of a series of postwar photo essays, produced by Smith as an employee of Life magazine, that are widely regarded as archetypes of the genre. The idea to examine the life of a typical country doctor, at the time ...

  17. The Photography of Margaret Bourke-White

    28 Photos. In Focus. Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City in 1904, and grew up in rural New Jersey. She went on to study science and art at multiple universities in the United States ...

  18. Persuasion and the Art of Photography

    Photography is the technical art, which is marvelous. Even if you don't have an artistic bone in your body, you can follow the rules and make a decent photograph. I hope you do, and I hope you claim the title "Photographer." Nobody criticizes a runner for not being an Olympian, and no one criticizes an equestrian for not competing in ...

  19. The Pioneering Photography of Margaret Bourke-White

    Margaret Bourke-White was a woman of many firsts. She was LIFE magazine's first female staff photographer, the first Western photographer permitted to enter the Soviet Union during the 1930s industrial revolution, and the first accredited female photographer to cover the combat zones of WWII. Beginning as a hobby in her youth, Bourke-White's photography skills soon led her to be a leading ...

  20. Jukebox Gallery: A Michael Goldberg Rock Photo Essay

    Michael Goldberg shot his first photo of the Doors' Jim Morrison at the first US rock fest in 1967. Enjoy this photo essay spanning his career as a photographer and critic.

  21. Semyon Fridlyand

    Semyon Fridlyand was born into a working-class family on August 28, 1905, in Kiev, Ukraine. He moved to Moscow in 1925, where he lived until his death on February 14, 1964. In 1925 he began working at Ogonek (The flame), one of the many illustrated magazines owned by his cousin Mikhail Koltsov; in 1932 he was appointed the head of its photography department.

  22. Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography

    Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography, an exhibition of 20th-century photographs of Moscow, opens at Columbia University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 and remains on display through Saturday, June 21, 2003.. Moscow has been a powerful magnet for many Russian photographers of the 20th century. Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography ...

  23. Opinion

    Guest Essay. What a Blind Photographer Saw at the Paralympics. Sept. 13, 2024. ... My interest in photography started when I was 11. That was the year I got my first cellphone, and I began using ...

  24. Why a Ranger's Essay About a Dropped Cheetos Bag Went Viral

    Park Service employee Erich B. Koenig discovered spilled junk food inside New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns in 2023. His post about human impact on delicate ecosystems sparked a glut of media coverage.

  25. Behind the Scenes of Paige Bueckers' New York Fashion Week

    Photo Essay. Behind the Scenes of Paige Bueckers' New York Fashion Week. September 13, 2024; Share. Email; Facebook; Twitter; Where there is style, there is sport — and athletes leading the new culture of fashion. That means if you're University of Connecticut All-American Paige Bueckers and it's Fashion Week in New York City, you've got a ...

  26. Office of Public Affairs

    The Justice Department announced today that Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho — leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group — were charged with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Humber and Allison ...