Check this Post. Could we start a new category?

A Photo Essay of Sorts: My Search For Forgotten People
A post from minniev in Wednesday C&C "No Theme" Thread #882 / Revived #102 on 2025 03 12*
and check the discussion that followed.

Could we start a photojournalism category? The idea would be to post a series of photos and text on a subject of interest to you. The skies the limit for subjects. For those old enough to remember, think about our own modest little Life magazine. Do a report on a person, an industry, an event, a social issue or whatever. The emphasis isn't on a single photo. It's a series of images selected to tell a story of the poster's choice. The selection and ordering are important. So is the text included.

What do you think? If we get reponses here expressing interest, we can look at setting something up.

Mike,

I like your idea and would take an interest in it.

Steve Thomas

I think the categories are fine now, maybe still too many. Personally I kook a the threads tab to see what is new. If you make a photo story it can go under the image discussion thread.

Just post your photo story in the image forum and it will be fine.

You want a new category for your own interest but have completely stomped on the other categories. All the previous genre specific posts are now lumped in together and it is basically impossible (without spending ages scrolling down through them) to find old or all posts of a specific genre.

Everyone wants threaded view so that conversations relating to one post are kept together. The same applies to posts to specific genre categories. It keeps them together for logical reference. Anything else is totally illogical.

No point for me to continue here...

David, Bryan.
I know we often have posts that consist of a series of photos and I know that these will be accompanied by text. What was being suggested is that there might be more to it than this. Photojournalism itself is a different skill. There might be discussion of such a post as a series in itself, including the text.
No, I'm not looking to cater to my own interests, I'm looking for ideas that might be different and work for this site. Photojournalism?
I accept that with just one person looking enthused about the idea, it isn't going to happen.

Bryan, re genre collections.
Does anyone really, really use our site to look at all the archived genre shots of, say, Landscape? I doubt it very much. The feedback occurs in the threads not the genres. Once a post has been up for more than a couple of weeks I could see no evidence that it was looked at or responded to again. What we got was a big list of genres and gear and other categories that were mainly dormant and this is what those new to the site saw.
Arvo is adding tags to the posts so genres can be grouped for searches, just in case someone wants to do this. (I didn't think this was necessary but it looks like he was right)

Thanks Steve. Ref the other responses and discussion here. I don't think it is going to happen.

Mike,

I know, and that's OK.

I envisioned a sort of National Geographic Magazine approach. An article with accompanying photos.

Steve Thomas