Definitions of Location Photography

Location photography can be broadly defined as any kind of photography where the photographer goes to the subject, instead of the subject coming to the photographer's studio. There are, however, countless different kinds of location photography. The diagram above roughly explores three kinds - travel, journalism and venue. As is clear in the diagram, after a while the many, many subsections begin to interlink with each other. Travel photography may cover wildlife, food, culture, architecture, street photography and landscapes, and journalistic photography among other things may document wars, politics and civil unrest, but both may have other cultures as subjects and both are forms of documentary photography. 

Another example is that venue photography may cover many kinds of events and live performance in many kinds of locations that are very separate from another kind of genre of location photography such as wedding photography, both both venue and wedding photography may potentially be geared towards marketing purposes for a company.