An explorative investigation aimed at building a conceptual framework for the production of multimedia photographic documentaries. Using semiotics to analyse the entities that structure multimedia documentaries: photographic and graphic signs, text, sounds, music, spoken commentaries and the structural platform that will incorporate the elements by using interactive and navigational systems. Contextual studies of media in general, the contemporary status of journalism and the role graphic documentary essays play today put in perspective the implementation of such multimedia documentaries....