Social documentary
A sub-genre of photography that focuses on documenting the ordinary lives of people from a variety of various countries, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Social documentary projects typically have a particular goal in mind, such as Lewis Hine's (1874-1940) photographs that brought attention to child labor in the early part of the 20th century, or Sebastiao Salgado's (1993) project that examined the working conditions that workers in various countries around the world were forced to endure.
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