The photo essay became a powerful influence in LIFE Magazine and helped shape the way Americans and many people from other countries saw the world. The essay can be photojournalism about war, about an isolated family or a person who has helped change the lives of people, for better or worse. The essay is how photographers communicate and explain what they see. They are the field men who visually report on our activities and relationships - conflict, love, despair, hope and all the human strengths and weaknesses. Photojournalism explains us to ourselves. Skye Chalmers records a winter in the life of the “boarders” from California to Norway. Peter Miller portrays people who live on the Great Plains and Vermonters who exist within the Green Mountains.