Some photographs are like storybooks — at first, they seem simple, but as your eyes are drawn deeper and deeper into them, you start noticing little details that when put together, make up a compelling narrative.
The composition of the shot, the facial expressions of the subject, everything can contribute to the plot that the image is trying to tell.
So we at Bored Panda decided to put together a collection of such images and invite you to get lost in them. Think of it as an exercise for your imagination.
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This Woman Adopted This 20-Year-Old Cat From A Shelter Because She Didn't Want Him To Spend The End Of His Life Alone In A Cage
My Cab Driver Tonight Was So Excited To Share With Me That He’d Made The Cover Of The Calendar. I Told Him I’d Help The World See
Using images to tell a story, or simply photojournalism was made possible by printing and photography innovations that came around the middle of the 19th century.
Although early illustrations had appeared in newspapers, such as an illustration of the funeral of Lord Horatio Nelson in The Times (1806), the first weekly illustrated newspaper was the Illustrated London News, first printed in 1842. It presented the illustrations with the use of engravings.
The first photograph to be used in the illustration of a newspaper story was a depiction of barricades in Paris during the June Days uprising taken on 25 June 1848; the photo was published as an engraving in L'Illustration on 1–8 July 1848.
Back Home After Morning Walk
Someone Placed A Small Stick On Each Of The Dog Graves In This Cemetery
Man's Best Friend
The hilarious detail is that the dude is wearing a NASA T-shirt in both pics
During the Crimean War, the ILN pioneered the birth of early photojournalism by printing pictures of the war taken by Roger Fenton.
Fenton was the first official war photographer and his work included documenting the effects it had on the troops, panoramas of the landscapes where the battles took place, model representations of the action, and portraits of commanders, which laid the groundwork for modern photojournalism.
Other photographers of the war included William Simpson and Carol Szathmari.
Our Neighbor Betty Just Turned 100 Years Old. We Got Her Balloons
A Proud Look Of A Mother
My Dog Hurt His Foot While Swimming. He Is Fine But He Was Pouting So My Cat Decided To Comfort Him
He's Done It! Finally The Last Day And Cancer Free. I Couldn't Be Prouder
At the time, photos were used to mainly enhance the text rather than to act as a medium of information in its own right. However, this began to change with the work of one of the pioneers of photojournalism, John Thomson, in the late 1870s.
In collaboration with the radical journalist Adolphe Smith, he began publishing a monthly magazine, Street Life in London, from 1876 to 1877. The project documented the lives of the street people of London in photographs and text and established social documentary photography as a form of photojournalism.
Instead of the images acting as a supplement to the text, he pioneered the use of printed photographs as the predominant medium for the imparting of information, successfully combining photography with the printed word.
Ever Since My Niece Saw Toy Story, She Shouts, “I’m Leaving!” And Then Peeks At Her Room Like This
The Company Owner Decided To Stop Paying His Drivers So One Of Them Parked Their Semi On The Owner's Ferrari And Just Left It There
My Friend Had Her Daughters At A Zoo When She Heard, "Ma'am, There's A Lemur On Your Baby"
Love it how the baby is still deep asleep. Or maybe just cool with lemurs.
In 1887, flash powder was invented, enabling journalists such as Jacob Riis to photograph informal subjects indoors, which led to the landmark work How the Other Half Lives—documentation of squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
By 1897, it became possible to reproduce halftone photographs on printing presses running at full speed.
My Grandpa Is a 93-year-old WWII Vet Surrounded by Vets From Different Generations Telling Them His War Stories. He Was So Happy They Wanted to Listen It Made His Week
My Very Favorite Picture Of My Father. He's The One That Set The Camera's Timer
My City Has Begun To Change Any Russian-Related Public Road Names To Reference Ukraine Instead
The "Golden Age of Photojournalism" is often considered to have started roughly around the 1930s and lasted until the 1950s. It was made possible thanks to the development of the compact commercial 35mm Leica camera in 1925, and the first flash bulbs between 1927 and 1930, which allowed next-level flexibility in taking pictures.
Most People Think Japan Is A Relatively Trash-Free Country, But That’s Not Always The Case. Today, Me And My Friends Tried To Clean Out The Forest. All This Only Took 4 Hours
I Had To Cut Down A Tree In My Yard And Now I Feel Bad
This got me I have to say. Poor little guy. He's thinking " but I left it right here, I swear!"
So much of the impact of this photo is the little guy's posture - he looks bewildered and defeated.
Imagine you go out for groceries, come back and your WHOLE CRIB IS GONE
I know it's sad. But your comment madee laugh.
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I am totally with you, January. Every post on he internet has made me sob today. I reach out to you from the Land of Enchantment with a box of tissues...the rum and Coke come later!
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Plant him a new tree! And help him find another till the new tree grows a lot!
Perfect observation. Lorax is really busy right now here in New Mexico. We are surrounded by wildfires and drought. Terrifying. We took this photo of the largest fire in NM history from our roof. It is 90 miles away, and looks like it is right down the road. I hope this person does something to give the poor squirrel another play to reside and feed him nuts. How would you feel? CC-HP-Wild...2d169c.jpg 
While the picture looks sad, don’t feel too bad for the squirrel. This is from the original poster on Reddit. “Just for context, the tree was old and infected (emerald ash borer) with and it would of eventually fell on the house. So I had to make the call to take it down. There is another very healthy oak tree 20feet away that I know it has a nest in.“
Look I know I’m just a squirrel, but I figured there would at least be a notification to tenants before demolition
Erm.. people have good reasons for clearing trees at times Y’know.. we had to clear one because it was unstable and if left any longer would most likely fall on the house (it was previously infested with termites as well)
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and it's raining!! where is that little fluffy ball gonna be safe
Talk about making the owner feel bad for having to cut Thier tree down 🤣. He'll have found a new tree to live in by now 😊.
I've seen that where I live. Makes you think how common this really is.
💔 The look of: "DARN IT!! Now I have to go grocery shopping again...and on a weekend too!!"
We had to remove a wind-damaged 40 ft tree in our front yard. Same thing happened. The squirrel did move her and her baby to a tree in our side yard, and when I went there she came down the tree and screamed at me for two solid minutes. She was PISSED! This poor guy just looks lost and so sad.
This makes me feel sad because I have a dead maple tree that needs to come down before a strong wind does it and harm someone or something.
So so very sad, his home has gone ! All his little things too !!
Yeah hi. House insurance? I just got home and some jerk cut my house down. (Apologies I know you had to)
Awe! We need to cut down a tree that is half dead... But this year red shouldered hawks decided to make their nest in it.. won't be coming down anytime soon.. hah
This is how I felt felt last week, when my apt complex cut down a tree that grew too close to a fence (but never touched it). It gave such a nice shade from the hot sun. >>sigh<<
Is that the world's smallest groundhog or the world's biggest squirrel?
Make that squirrel a house please! Or feed it treats. Maybe it's silly but stuff like this makes me so sad. Man I REALLY hope there wasn't her babies in a nest! :(
Why do people have to cut down trees? Don't they know they provide oxygen?
You've never heard of a tree getting sick, too? Parasites, infections, etc. that then pass to the surrounding trees. And the disease is only one of the reasons why some wood needs to be cut off to the roots. Sometimes it's just branches, and sometimes unfortunately more trees need to be cut down. That's quite normal in the forests area.
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Just remember, if you HAVE to take out a tree, don't do it during baby (squirrels, birds) season!!!!
Yes, we'll wait for the sick tree to destroy our house because there may be a pregnant pigeon inside. It doesn't matter that it's our only house in the world. People don't destroy wood for no reason. This was sick and full of parasites, and a potential hazard to the roof of that man's house.
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As I said in another comment exactly like this sometimes people have reasons (our backyard tree was infested with termites and if left any longer would’ve collapsed on our house or destroyed the neighbors fence and yard depending on how it fell)
Load More Replies... We removed all the shrubs from the front of our house, and waited two months before all the baby birds were gone. I never could have lived with myself. This is so sad. Hope he didn't have family there.
OMG THIS IS HORRIBLE. Please get a tree in a pot or something. That tree looks at least a00 years old from the stump.
It was sick, truly sick, and as such a great danger for the man's house.
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Well chances are, the tree was dying or it was growing too close to their house
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They said they had to cut it down in the post..
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This Is Why You Need To Put Your Cart Back In The Corral When You're Finished With It
Henri Cartier-Bresson is often regarded as the father of modern photojournalism; in 1937 he covered the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth for the French weekly Regards.
He focused on the new monarch's adoring subjects lining the London streets and took no pictures of the king.
My Dad Bought A Cactus To Discourage Mingus From Getting On The Counter. Here's Mingus With The Cactus
Took My Autistic Brother Out For Ice Cream Today For The First Time In Months
A Story Of Confusion
Dog in back is like " dude how do you get all the chicks?" ( I'll see myself out)
The "Golden Age of Photojournalism" ended in the 1970s when many photo magazines found that they could not compete with other media for advertising revenue to sustain their large circulations and high costs. Still, those outlets taught journalism much about the photographic essay and the power of still images.
These Coins Stopped A Bullet And Saved My Great-Grandfather's Life During World War I
That man on the coins: king leopold 2 of Belgium was one of the worst human beings ever. He was responsible for millions of deaths and many other atrocities
Our Firstborn Just Came Home From The Vet With A Probable Cancer Diagnosis. Came Into The Living Room To Find My SO Watching Her While She Sleeps
I Tried To Take A Photo Of My Ice Cream. Greedy Seagull Photobombed It
However, since then, photojournalism and documentary photography have increasingly been accorded a place in art galleries alongside fine art photography. Luc Delahaye, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, and the members of VII Photo Agency are among many who regularly exhibit in galleries and museums.
My Father’s Chair Falling At A Coast Guard Change Of Command
Something like that happened to me once. It was rather embarrassing.
We Found My Wife’s Phone In The Toilet Yesterday. We Weren’t Sure Which Of Our Three Kids Put It There. Until My Wife Scrolled Through Her Pictures Today
Found This Old Picture Of My Dad From Back In 1976. I Feel Like The Picture Captures An Awful Lot And Tells A Story
Some Pictures Tell The Story For Itself
Short Story
We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends
OMG, it's the bottom half of the Town Musicians of Bremen (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) in real life ;)https://en.wikipedia...band.500pix.jpg
Photograph From 1946, When There Was No Ultrasound And Everything Was A Surprise
