Something is editorial if it is a series of images that conveys a main theme. Most editorial sessions are fashion, usually consisting of 2 or more models, with multiple wardrobe and background changes, but shot in the same style and same theme as a “set.” I may be wrong, but editorial almost always refers to a set of photos.
Documentary and lifestyle are almost the same, but I feel documentary is grander in scale. Like lifestyle documents a person’s life, but documentary might capture a project or a team or an event of some kind. Something less personal and more public in interest. Kind of like the difference between a journal and a biography, if you will?
For me, I didn’t feel my work always fit in with fine art, and it didn’t always fit in with conceptual, so I just call myself a conceptual portrait photographer. It works. 😅
This is always so frustrating. I shot the cover of a famous comic book series. My name was published real small in the back of the comic book, I was never paid what I was supposed to be paid, and they continued using that image on their social media for years without EVER tagging or crediting me. Sometimes I come across a copy of it in comic book stores and that’s cool and all, but it’s bittersweet.