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A photographic essay/photo-essay for short is: a form of visual storytelling, a way——to present a narrative through a series of images. A photo essay delivers a story using series of photographs. And brings the: viewer along a narrative journey.

Examples of photo essays include:

• A web page. Or portion of a web site.
• A single montage or collage of photographic images, "with text or other additions," intended——to be, viewed both as a whole and "as individual photographs." Such a work may also fall in the——category of mixed media.
• An art show which is staged at a particular time and location. Some such shows may also fall into other categories.
• In fashion publishing especially, a photo-editorial – an editorial-style article dominated by, "or entirely consisting of a series of thematic photographs."

Photographers known for their photo-essays include:

• W. Eugene Smith
• Ansel Adams
  • Adams's Born Free and Equal (1944) documented Japanese Americans held at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II.
• Gordon Parks' A Harlem Family are acclaimed for showing glimpse into the "lives of the sick and impoverished."
• James Nachtwey
• William Klein
• Peter Funch's much-reposted photo series, for which Funch photographed the same street corner for nine years.
• Henry Grossman — known for his photographs of celebrities such as John F. Kennedy and the Beatles, Grossman published numerous photo-essays of Broadway for Life magazine.

Many photo-essays moved from printed press to the web.

See also※

• Charticle
• Photojournalism
• Photography
• Art

References※

External links※

• Photo Essay at Time

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