The work proposes an analysis of the use of photography from the digital platform Instagram as a technological resource for constructing journalistic narratives. The criteria of this analysis emphasize issues concerning the relationships between users in the digital environment and the construction of a visual narrative in electronic/digital journalism. This analysis is based on two aspects: the use of photography in digital journalism, based on a sampling of photographs published on Instagram, and the construction on the Instagram platform of the visual narrative used by the journals (Folha de São Paulo). Thus, the purpose of this study is to understand the action of photography in this reinterpretation of the photographic language made on Instagram and how it impacts the visual narrative, and the use of the photographic image in the interpretation of reality in digital journalism, as a narrative that endorses the newsworthiness of facts.