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Documentary Photography Essays aim to connect readers to a story through documentary photography. If the site contains multiple essays and a juxtaposition of other styles with Documentary; the editorial team reserves the right to link only to the essay that shows Documentary photography.

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• 2 Nashville

  http://www.2nashville.com/
  49 photos by Jerry Hall documenting Nashville's eccentric southern nature since 1997.

• 9-11 Images

  http://www.9-11images.com/
  Photographic journey through the aftermath of 9-11, the heroes, the missing and the mourning, in memory of those who died.

• American Families: Beyond the White Picket Fence

  http://www.10families.com/
  By Courteney Coolidge, exploring the lives of ten families across the United States at the dawn of the new millennium.

• Around the World in a Viewfinder

  http://www.jpsviewfinder.com/documentary/
  A selection of photo essays by Jean-Philippe Soule to present various Native Cultures.

• As Long As We Both Shall Live

  http://www.longmarriedcouples.com/
  An ongoing essay depicting long-married couples in America. By Robert Fass.

• Ashfactories

  http://webexhibits.org/ashfactories/
  Fire as a cleansing agent and as society's post-industrial solution to the problem of death. By Juraj Lipscher.

• Athos

  http://www.zbigniewkosc.nl/Athos%20gallery/index.htm
  Photography by Zbigniew Kosc of monasteries and monks of Mount Athos, Greece.

• Behind The Stonewall

  http://www.jatruck.com/stonewall/
  5 essays on US Civil War battlefields Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Manassas, Gettysburg and Chickamauga.

• Berlin Mitte: Explorations of an Urban Conversion

  http://uinic.de/berlin-mitte/en/
  Photography by Ulrich Wuest looking at the transformation of East Berlin after the fall of communism

• Children of Eastern Europe

  http://northstargallery.com/pages/RussiaIndex.htm
  Of children living in orphanages and psychiatric hospitals in Russia and Moldova, and who have gone underground in Bucharest, Romania. By Northstar Gallery.

• China's Yangtze

  http://www.billzorn.com/china/intro.shtml
  A series of images shot below the submersion levels of China's future Yangtze reservoir. By Bill Zorn.

• East Side Stories

  http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/rodriguez/default.html
  Black and white photographs of Latino gang members in East Los Angeles by Joseph Rodriguez.

• Fast Forward

  http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/lauren2/portada.html
  By Lauren Greenfield. A photographer's penetrating look at youths growing up on both sides of the tracks in the shadow of Hollywood - also a book.

• FotoFestival Naarden

  http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/fotofest.htm
  Photo essay about a photo festival in Holland.

• Friends Of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures

  http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/
  Photo journal of industrial structures in the Los Angeles area with commentary and observations. By Greg Ercolano.

• Holding Ground under Water

  http://www.holdingground.com/
  On China's Three Gorges Dam and its effects on the environment and people of the Yangtze River Basin. By Ben Sandler.

• Iceledo

  http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/iceledo/
  This site contains photos of a small area of the Arkansas Ozarks called Iceledo. These are seasonal photos of streams and woodlands taken during the late 1970's by Willie Weeks.

• Kurdistan photographs

  http://members.ams.chello.nl/zkosc/Kurdistan%20main%20page/kurdistan.html
  Features photographs of Kurdistan (Turkey) people, landscape and history by Zbigniew Kosc.

• Looking for the Light

  http://www.musarium.com/aidsdecade/menu.html
  The last decade of the AIDS crisis photographed by well-known New York photographer Scott Thode. Co-published with the New York Times.

• Mexican Community in New York City

  http://www.biddingtons.com/content/creativegiancoli.html
  Photographer Mary Teresa Giancoli documents the rituals, festivals and foods of the Mexican community in New York City.

• Modern Ruins

  http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
  Discover the roots of our place in history, through an archaeology of our culture. By Shaun O'Boyle.

• Monks, Fran

  http://www.franmonks.com/
  Photos of 'Miscellaneous Heroes'.

• Morning Light Photography

  http://morninglight.us/
  Seasonal and scenic photographs from the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

• Navajo Art

  http://artsales.com/ARTists/earl_waggoner/
  Navajo indian culture and history in pictures. Earl Waggoner lived on the Navajo Indian Reservations in the 1950s and recordered the culture of the Nation among dramatic panoramic views of the Southwest.

• New York Changing

  http://www.newyorkchanging.com/
  Berenice Abbott's Changing New York project with the identical camera, at the same time of day and year, showing the city's evolution over 65 years.

• Over the Roads

  http://www.towards-esfahan.com/
  Photographs of Iran based on "Towards Ispahan" a Pierre Loti novel. Links to Loti's biography, articles and web-based books.

• PhotogJoe's

  http://joemjoe.com/
  Non-fiction about urban life and international travel by a professional photographer cum community activist.

• Samuel's Spina Bifida Surgery In Utero

  http://www.michaelclancy.com/
  Miraculous photograph of a twenty-one week old fetus reaching out of his mother's womb to grasp the hand of his surgeon.

• Schifanoia

  http://colophon.com/gallery/schifanoia/
  By K.N. Chaudhuri, historian, writer, and artist who specialises in historical sites and presents through photo-texts and images a distinctive interpretation of landscape.

• Scott Carrier: From Afghanistan

  http://www.hearingvoices.com/webwork/carrier/afghan/
  A photo-audio-essay, with excerpts from Harper's magazine article: "After the Fall, Letters from Afghanistan" (April 2002).

• Slices of America

  http://www.slicesofamerica.com/
  Taylor Lasseigne's album of photos from around the U.S. and Canada.

• Soccer in Liberia by Tim Hetherington

  http://www.foto8.com/issue05/liberiasoc01.html
  Tim Hetherington looks at soccer in a Liberia recovering from civil war.

• Spotfire Images: Wildfire Photojournal

  http://www.spotfireimages.com/
  Photo-essays of wildland firefighting, including smokejumping and hot shot crews. By Alaska Smokejumper and photographer Mike McMillan.

• St.Helier, Jersey

  http://www.fotolog.com/st_helier_jersey/
  A photo guide to St.Helier,Jersey documenting its history and its relationship with New Jersey.

• Still Training

  http://www.reportage.org/2001/SierraLeoneM/PagesSLM/slmstrip.html
  Seamus Murphy's award-winning story on war torn Sierra Leone's Olympic hopefuls.

• The Boys of Ramallah

  http://www.poyi.org/59/WUA/
  Jean Garup follows a group of Palestinian kids from school to stone-throwing to home.

• The Call Centre

  http://www.ripserve.com/callcentre/
  A documentary on the people and work at a particular call centre, by John Perkins.

• The Lost Border, Photographs of the Iron Curtain

  http://www.brianrose.com/lostborder.htm
  By Brian Rose, documenting the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall in 1985; the dismantling of the Wall at the end of 1989; and the subsequent changes in the border zone, particularly at Potsdamer Platz.

• The Pigeon Train

  http://members.tripod.com/leejinhong/
  2 photo essays in Korean and English: the Pigeon Train, and soldiers on the northern frontier of South Korea (untitled). By Lee Jin Hong.

• Vietnam Postcards

  http://www.angelfire.com/tx/ClaroCortes/
  Vietnamese culture and lifestyle by Filipino photographer Claro Cortes.

• World War II - The Photos Tell

  http://www.auschwitz.dk/story/
  Images from World War II's Holocaust and the history behind several well-known images. By Louis Bülow.

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