Way back when, when I was teaching "Shooting & Selling Nature, Travel, and Stock Photography as a Full- or Part-Time Business," I encouraged photographers to submit not just single photos, but a SERIES of photos that tell a story. I emphasized it's easier to sell a grouping of good photos that tell a story than one spectacular shot of a monarch butterfly.
Look at the photo essay this photographer has put together and was published in the New York Times. Extraordinary work. Brilliant concept.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
