Synonyms of photograph

photograph 1 of 2

noun

ˈfō-tə-ˌgraf 

as in photo

a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera

the old photograph was faded but still clear enough to make out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• photo
• pic
• snapshot
• print
• shot
• snap
• enlargement
• still
• close-up
• blowup
• telephoto
• daguerreotype
• monochrome
• sepia
• tintype
• ferrotype

photograph

2 of 2

verb

as in to photo

to take a photograph of

we've been photographing the baby virtually nonstop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• photo
• picture
• shoot
• film
• snap
• image
• mug
• videotape
• retake
• rephotograph

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of photograph

Noun

Outside hospitals, temporary shelters and improvised morgues, relatives continue posting photographs and names of missing family members on social media, hoping someone might recognize them or provide information about their fate. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026

The vast courtyard of the complex, the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla, was filled with mourners, many waving Iranian flags and carrying photographs of the slain leader. — Reuters, USA Today, 4 July 2026

Verb

The song was paired with a lyric video that reuses two-decade-old footage shot by collaborator Cliff Watts, who also photographed Beyoncé’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover. — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2026

McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee. — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026