New life is being breathed into the medium of photography. The technique of combining still images with sound helps to ensure photojournalism is at the heart of a growing digital phenomena - the multimedia slide show.

These allow photographers to present their photos in such a way that they deliver compelling storytelling: powerful images combined with narration from the people who lived and breathed the events depicted.

Magnum in motion features a series of photo essays from world renown photographers such as Burt Glinn and Steve McCurry with audio narratives of the photographers’ experiences and thoughts.

Apple’s Final Cut Pro was used to edit and combine sound with photographs which can be downloaded as video podcasts. This type of accessibility provides a new audience with an introduction to photojournalism. It also brings a new dimension to feature stories.

This series by Magnum covers a whole spectrum of topics from different cultures through to events in history allowing a variety of viewpoints to be heard.

Photojournalist Martin Fuchs calls it “interactive storytelling”, an additional way to showcase work, and to provide a better understanding of the story he is trying to tell, by providing context.

Many newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and the Washington Post are creating multimedia slide shows on their websites by presenting the news in this format.

Mediastorm is a multimedia production studio that is passionate about “visual storytelling” and creates media that focuses upon just that. Like Magnum, mediastorm have a series of photo essays with commentary but from the subjects themselves rather than just the photographers.

With this type of personal commentary, it allows the viewer to understand more about the stories as the subject is directly leading them through their lives, shot by shot.