30 Engaging Documentary Photos

Documentary photography is when a photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject. We’ve compiled a selection of of 30 photos that greatly exemplifies that definition.

A Glimpse of My World by Dennis Bautista

Martha, she ever wants a baby by Groucho

Life in the trash by Jose Ferreira

Reborn by Mehdi Eskandari

3 Look by Zemberek

Fragile Beginning by Wings Photography

She’s gone by Mirjam Delrue

Coexistence by Doron Nissim

Life on the countryside by Oochappan

The Arresting of a Smile by Catalin Parau

Cinema by Denis Buchel

Alone on a dance floor by Nikola Smernic

By Off To War by Steve Hill

Veggy by Tom Hoops

F*** You by Dian Agung Nugroho

The intruder by Laurence Garçon

Friends by Hippolyte

Waiting by Peter Holmström

The man and the bird by Jean-Paul Boulinguet

Futbolin by Manuel Vilches

Close Encounter of The Third Kind. by Al Sheihk

The imaginary groom by Matteo Mignani

Runaway Girls by Gunnisal

Ballet on Canal by Steve Hill

One Day in Victoria Park by FRS Photography

Private Conversation by Richard Ford

Urban Love by Aart de Boer

Kiae by Marcel Rebro

Dark Future by Dennis Bautista