Photojournalism

TIME's photo editors select the 100 best images of the year

A new book celebrates the late Observer photographer’s powerful reportage work

Homs, Syria's third-largest city, had been involved in the war for four years. A mother, who returned home after the end of the conflict, found her child's toy car in their destroyed house.

What started out for Stephen Shames as an assignment for Look magazine back in 1977 turned into an epic 22 year project documenting the lives of young boys in the Bronx, New York.

Captioning photos is an important part of journalism. Captions must be accurate and informative. In fact, most readers tend to look at the photos, and then the captions, in a story before they decide whether they want to read the story...

5 Tips For The Aspiring Photojournalist || Documentary photography, street photography and photojournalism are closely related disciplines that share at least a few theoretical, practical and aesthetic ideologies, but what sets photojournalism apart is pretty simple — newsworthiness. Newsworthiness, in turn, embodies these three main elements: timeliness, objectivity, and narrative. The goal of photojournalistic work is to capture…

An upcoming photography exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will explore the definition of the American family.

'What is becoming clear to the generation now approaching maturity is that our society has no solutions for their problems, can give no direction to their lives.'