5 worthwhile photo-essay websites

The photo-essay, which originated in news magazines such as LIFE, is a specific type of photojournalism characterized by a narrative sequence of both photos and text. So who's out there telling the visual stories that matter to us today?

• PixelPress - Resolutely humanist. The photo-essays here circumvent media sensationalism and simplification of complex issues. Example: View photographs made from disposable cameras by Rwandan children who have been orphaned by the genocide.
• Reportage - Reportage sees its role as resurrecting and encouraging the neglected art of storytelling in pictures. This site continues the approach of the former print edition of Reportage magazine which received critical acclaim between 1993 and 2000.
• TIME Magazine - Who else can take you deep inside Google Headquarters? Sometimes it takes a media heavyweight like TIME to give you a peek at what makes the fastest growing internet search company tick.
• Musarium - This site features visual storytelling at its best. Daniel Sheehan's eerie photos of the 1993 WTC bombings are not to be missed.
• Polar Inertia - Polar Inertia is a self-described 'journal of nomadic and popular culture'. Bi-monthly essays cover everything from Hong Kong noodle shops to the effect wooden pallets play in global shipping logistics.

This entry was posted by Christoph, on March 28, 2006. You can leave your response.