What is editorial photography

Are you have an interest in photography? are you want to become a passionate photographer? So you need to be aware of some kind of topics related to the photography profession.

Do you know what is editorial photography? here we will help you to understand the meaning of editorial photography.

Editorial photography

Photos that are used to refer to an article visually in a newspaper or magazine, are come under editorial photography. these type of images are featured alongside the article to support the text. 

See the image below:

Editorial images have the power to tell the story visually without using text. Editorial images can be with the text content or also without text, as only visual story. The main purpose of editorial photos is, that they describe the story of the article visually. A perfect picture can describe more than the text wrote in an article.

Journalists use editorial photography to cover a topic visually

see example: 

Source: Hindustantimes epaper

Editorial photography does not need models or specific editing because it is not suitable for any type of marketing or advertisement use.