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Year End Specials | 2024 — A Year in Photographs

Photo Essays That Narrate a Story

An overview of the popular Captured on Camera series

Vickey Maverick.

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[Photo: ©Vickey Maverick.]

A picture is worth a thousand words is a popular adage in multiple languages. It means that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which manages to put forth its meaning and significance in a more effective manner vis-à-vis a description that makes use of many thousand words.

It is a fact that every interesting photograph has a story to tell, without necessarily creating a detailed narrative. In fact, photography is a knack of conveying stories, ideas and viewpoints through the visual medium.

While not every picture tells a story, they do convey emotion and mood, thereby necessitating the need for a detailed examination.

No wonder, photography is considered to be an art form where images replace words as the medium of narration.

Keeping this in mind, I began my Captured on Camera photography series in 2024, and it has been an instant success.

Without much ado, below are links to a few photo essays that do tell a story. Each one of them presents a collage of photographs with a single theme. It is a diverse collection for your…

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