Photo Examples

Documentary picture -- The suicide nets put up at FoxConn (Image from Business Week)
FoxConn is the company that assembles our iPhones and video game systems for us, and the poor treatment of the workers there has been brought to light by the several suicides that have occurred there during recent months. The company has always had an unreasonably high amount of suicides, but there have been seven or more in a row who have chosen to jump from the company buildings. As a result, FoxConn put up suicide nets to show that they "care" about their workers. I feel like this picture in particular shows the cold nature of the company; just seeing the suicide nets there with people walking underneath them like it's business as usual makes for a powerful image.

Portrait picture -- Gordon Freeman of Half-Life 2 fame (Image from Kotaku)
Of course this isn't an actual person, but it is relevant to my beat, and qualifies as a portrait picture as far as video games are concerned. Kotaku took the image of a protagonist from a sci-fi shooter and changed his armor plating to pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A person who is unfamiliar with the game may be lead to believe that this is his normal armor, or perhaps until they see the symbol on his chest. Kotaku wanted to show that gamers support the cause and took a very popular character that everybody in the gaming community is familiar with to showcase the cause. If he were a real person, he looks like he's posing for the picture and supports the cause as well. This is a clever editing job.