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How to Edit a Documentary Photo Story

Editing can be the hardest and most frustrating process involved in working on a photo project, but ultimately it’s the very moment the story, the atmosphere and the message you intend to convey take shape. I’ll take Dias Eternos, a long-term project shot by photographer Ana Maria Arevalo in Venezuelan prisons and featured by The New York Times and the Pulitzer Center among others, as an example to share a few advice.

1. Understand the basic principles of editing and sequencing

According to the nature of your project and the destination you have in mind for it, you’ll make different choices during the editing process.

To get an idea, a good exercise is ...

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