1, humanistic photography, as its name implies, is photography that takes people or people's activities as the shooting object. At present, this term is usually used for artistic photography activities. Pure documentary photography, although some take people or people's activities as the shooting object, has traditionally been classified as documentary photography of literature or materials.

2. The essence of humanistic photography is a photography activity that pays attention to people's living conditions. It is necessary to reflect people's essential characteristics, including living conditions, spiritual pursuit, local customs, history and culture. Folk photography belongs to humanistic photography, which belongs to documentary photography. They all pursue the truth. Whether the humanistic photographer interferes with the subject by posing or simply records, as long as the picture can convey the information to be conveyed, the photo itself is a work of humanistic photography.

3. Humanistic photography can be divided into documentary photography and non-documentary photography (such as pictures of TV movies, photography, some commercial photography, etc.). ).