photo-essay

{{Short description|Form of visual storytelling}}

A photographic essay or 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 a series of photographs and brings the viewer along a narrative journey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-create-a-photo-essay#what-is-a-photo-essay|title=How to Create a Photo Essay: Step-by-Step Guide With Examples – 4 Photo Essay Examples|website=MasterClass|date=8 November 2020}}

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:

• Margaret Bourke-White{{cite book|last1=Preble|first1=Duane|last2=Preble|first2=Sarah|last3=Frank|first3=Patrick|year=1999|title=Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts|isbn=0321002296|publisher=Longman|page=165}}
• W. Eugene Smith{{cite web|access-date=2018-06-14|title=W. Eugene Smith's Landmark Photo Essay, 'Nurse Midwife'|url=https://time.com/26789/w-eugene-smith-life-magazine-1951-photo-essay-nurse-midwife/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529200513/http://time.com/26789/w-eugene-smith-life-magazine-1951-photo-essay-nurse-midwife/|url-status=live|archive-date=May 29, 2015|website=Time}}
• Ansel Adams{{cite web|access-date=2018-06-14|title=Ansel Adams in Color - Photo Essays|url=https://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1932762,00.html|website=Time}}
• 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 a glimpse into the lives of the sick and impoverished.
• James Nachtwey{{cite web|access-date=2018-06-14|title=Haiti: Out of the Ruins - Photo Essays|url=https://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1957522,00.html|website=Time}}
• William Klein[https://www.lensculture.com/william-klein William Klein], lensculture.com. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
• Peter Funch's much-reposted photo series,{{Cite web|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/peter-funch-42nd-and-vanderbilt-photography-021017|title=Peter Funch has photographed the same people on the same street for nine years|website=It's Nice That|first=Rebecca|last=Fulleylove|date=2 October 2017}} 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.Koziin, Allan. 2012. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/arts/music/henry-grossmans-photos-of-the-beatles.html The Beatles, seen from unusual angles]. New York Times, December 31, 2012, accessed 7-June-2014.

Many photo-essays moved from printed press to the web.{{cite journal|access-date=2018-06-14|title=Fotoesej a fotoreportáž v internetových verziách svetových denníkov či týždenníkov|url=https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/98547/|website=Charles University|date=20 June 2012 |last1=Šinková |first1=Veronika }}