Photography documentary

Sometimes the strangest things show up like unexpected gifts on the doorstep - like the comment I got just yesterday that told me (I’m paraphrasing) that all my talk about composition and storytelling was nonsense. The less-paraphrased version was that scenes are what they are and they compose themselves. I’m not going to lie: I

Funny, tragic and often bizarre, Stephen Leslie’s photos in his book Sparks are an unique ode to street photography, matching short fictions with the images that inspired them

‘In photography, I have found a language that suits me,’ Martine Franck once said. The late documentary and portrait photographer is the subject of a retrospective at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson’s new Paris home in Le Marais

🍽️📸 The Importance of Food and Documentary Photography for Restaurants 📸🍽️ Today, restaurants are not just about delicious food and excellent service; they also rely on visual appeal to win the hearts of new guests. Food and documentary photography play a key role in creating a memorable image of your establishment. ❓Why is this important? 1. First Impression: In today’s world of social media, the first encounter with a restaurant often happens online. High-quality photos of dishes can…

Monaris is a photographer with a passion for visual storytelling. As an Adobe Lightroom and Sony Ambassador, she has developed a distinct creative style focused on composition and color theory that lives to transform brief instances of reality into movies

It's unlikely that Izzy will be able to remember these specific moments with her Grandad when she's much, much older. But she will have these. And that's the nature of documentary family photography. It's a legacy, of sorts.

The Youth Photography Awards 2020 aims to support young people's wellbeing.

Five shot sequence is a popular filming technique that uses five different shots to depict an activity. In my open online course Audio Slideshow Storytelling, students need to study a tutorial and …

Documentary photography is meant to provide an accurate representation of people, places, and events. The key word here is accurate. While documentary photographs are often impactful and emotion generating they won’t show the wildly distorted angles or colors found in other styles. Monochrome/sepia to create a mood or add emphasis to other features is sometimes done. Vignetting an image, a darkening of the borders of the photograph is another common choice but these two techniques are often…

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“There simply are not many grand moments of life, and we surely don’t live life in those moments. No, we live life in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms,…

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stella artois, by Martin Parr

What started out for Stephen Shames as an assignment for Look magazine back in 1977 turned into an epic 22 year project documenting the lives of young boys in the Bronx, New York.