Journalistic definition of thematic photography

Xu Zhongmin wrote in his book News Photography: "Thematic photography, also known as thematic photography and photographic communication, is a genre of news photography. It focuses on a theme through several groups of pictures combined with certain words, deeply and meticulously portrays the mental outlook of characters, or profoundly reflects the development and change process of events, and reveals its internal ideological connotation and social significance. This is a form of reporting that newspapers and magazines often use. "