The documentary-style photographer is a very special breed of artist. Documentary photographs and documentary projects tell stories with images. The main difference between photojournalism and documentary photography is that documentary photography is meant to serve as a historical document of a political or social era wheras photojournalism documents a particular scene or instance. As the FSA (Farm Security Administration) was incepted to do to photographh the situation in the dust bowl of migrant farm workers, documentary style photography stemmed from that time, when literally a photographer AND a journalist would go out together to explore a story. That’s where we get the name photojournalism.
