Photojournalism in The Arrival In the graphic novel, The Arrival, Shaun Tan uses a variety of pictures to tell an astonishing story using just photojournalism. Telling an amazing story is a demanding thing to do, but doing so and only using pictures is certainly a feat. But how can someone be able to create an outstanding story using only images, what are the key things that are used and how does the author do this so well? When you tell a story with images you completely cut out character dialogue, but Shaun Tan gets around this with his amazing skills to show expression. He easily tells a person's thoughts, feelings, and overall mood, for example on image 7 of chapter 2 we can see the author uses depressed expressions on the characters' faces