This example of documentary photography by Sebastiao Salgado shows people traveling through the desert and there is a main focus on a mother and her two children, who are not clothed. It is written that while Salgado’s photographs are very beautiful and moving, the main purpose for them is to show environmental and social problems of the human race on our planet. This documentation is very important for people to see.
Robert Capa’s documentation of D-Day are very moving and make a big contribution to documentary photography because he documented such an important mark in history. This image shows “Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment seek shelter from German machine-gun fire in shallow water
behind “Czech hedgehog” beach obstacles, Easy Red sector, Omaha Beach.”