Documentary photography ideas

Documenting the Lives of People Who Use Drugs through Photography

Find inspiration from the various photography styles and techniques we showcase in our collections, and take your photography to the next level.

Photos Of Manchester Slums 1969-72

“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,…

When you're stuck at home and nothing much is going on, getting photos can be tricky... that's where documentary photography comes in.

‘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

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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“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” ― Julian F. Fleron