Documentary photography chronicles both significant historical events and everyday life through truthful, objective, and candid photos. Photojournalism employs images to tell news stories and is understood to refer only to still images. Landscape photography depicts spaces within the world, both vast outdoor scenes as well as microscopic views, and can show nature or man-made features.

2. Documentary photography
usually refers to a popular form
of photography used to
chronicle both significant and
historical events and everyday
life.
The photographer attempts to
produce truthful, objective, and
usually candid photography of a
particular subject, most often
pictures of people.

3. Photojournalism is a
particular form of journalism
that employs images in order
to tell a news story. It is now
usually understood to refer
only to still images.
That employs images in
order to tell a news story. It is
now usually understood to
refer only to still images

4. Landscape photography
shows spaces within the
world, sometimes vast and
unending, but other times
microscopic. Landscape
photographs typically
capture the presence of
nature but can also focus
on man-made features or
disturbances of
landscapes.

5. Portrait photography or
portraiture is photography
of a person or group of
people that displays the
expression, personality, and
mood of the subject. Like
other types of portraiture,
the focus of the photograph
is usually the person's face.

6. Fashion photography
is a genre of
photography devoted
to displaying clothing
and other fashion
items. Fashion
photography is most
often conducted for
advertisements or
fashion magazines

7. Fine art
photography
is
photography
created in
accordance
with the vision
of the artist as
photographer.

8. Still life photography
is the depiction of
inanimate subject
matter, most typically
a small grouping of
objects.

9. Sports photography refers to the genre of
photography that covers all types of
sports. The main application of
professional sports photography is for
editorial purposes; dedicated sports
photographers usually work for
newspapers, major wire agencies or
dedicated sports magazines. However,
sports photography is also used for
advertising purposes both to build a brand.

10. Advertising
photography is
used to help
advertise products
etc to help promote
their products.

11. Wildlife photography is part of
the larger Nature Photography.
Wildlife photography basically
focuses on photographing
animals, whether on land
(including insects), the birds and
the marine life. Nature
photography is as old as
photography itself. It begun its
journey in 1826 when a French
scientist Joseph Nicephore
Niepce took the first photograph
of what can be described as a
landscape photograph.

12. Underwater photography is the
process of taking photographs
while under water. It is usually done
while scuba diving, but can be done
while diving on surface supply,
snorkelling, swimming, from a
submersible or remotely operated
underwater vehicle, or from
automated cameras lowered from
the surface.

13. Food photography is a still life
specialization of commercial
photography, aimed at producing
attractive photographs of food for a
variety of uses including in
advertisements, magazines,
packaging, menus or cookbooks.
Professional food photography is a
collaborative effort, usually
involving an art director, a
photographer, a food stylist, a prop
stylist and their assistants.