A documentary photographer is someone who captures photos to tell a story or document real-life events, people, or places. They aim to show the truth and create a visual record of the world around us. Full definition
His practice continues in the line of previous American social documentary photographers whose work, in book and print form, is intended as a prolonged and measured examination of a theme. (creativeboom.com)
It's the American documentary photographer's first solo exhibition in 20 years, comprising 45 photographs from the 1940s to 1990. (wallpaper.com)
His work exhibits the requisite empathy of great documentary photographers but his vision is rendered with the aesthetic control of a fine art photographer. (candelabooks.com)