Documentary photography follows a single topic or story in-depth over time, as opposed to photojournalism’s real-time coverage of breaking news and events. By deepening our understanding and emotional connection to stories of injustice, documentary photography can capture and sustain public attention, and mobilize people around pressing social and human rights issues.
This image represents documentary photography because it represents several different meanings. It tells us a story by showing the boy trapped behind the barbed wire. This can represents war and starvation because the barbed wire represents war and the fact that he is so skinny shows he is starving. I think this image represents documentary well because it allows us to read into the picture.
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