Body of Work
A sustained group of photographs unified by subject, approach or idea, developed over an extended period.
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In depth
A body of work is what distinguishes a photographer from someone who takes good photographs: it demonstrates a way of seeing applied consistently and developed over time. Galleries, publishers and grant panels evaluate it rather than individual images, because coherence across many frames is far harder to achieve than one strong picture.
Examples in practice
Eighty photographs made over three years on one estate cohere into a project a single strong image could not represent.