Production Assignment: The Photo Essay
You also need to include a written portion to go with the photographs. This could be one longer essay that accompanies all 5-10 photos, or it could be a shorter few sentences that goes with each individual photograph, that when put together tells the story.
For more info, please see page 168 in the Focus on Photography book that discusses the photo essay.
A great example of photo essay is Lewis Hine's photo essays of child labor in the US taken in the early 1900s. His work published the horrors of child labor and lead to the laws being changed to prevent child labor in the US. See examples on this link here.