Games with Photography Elements [Updated: March 15 2022]

1,000 Heads Among the Trees

The camera is actually one of the main mechanics to get the story told - you take pictures of what you see - and, eventually, maybe some things you don't see - and show them to town residents, and they'll begin to tell you stories. Some of them will complain about you taking all those pictures, as well.

Spider-Man on PS4. Peter is a photographer, so you can imagine that cameras come into play quite a bit.

I just wanted to point out that the game Dark Cloud 2 was mentioned by Alvin04 here, but you gave me credit.

There's a quest for taking photos of 5 landmarks in Fallout: New Vegas. Also, 35MM's protagonist has camera with him at almost all times, but aside from throwing around some quotes about photos being time machine, it seems more like an in-game screenshot taking mechanic (unless I forgot something, and/or haven't got to the part of game where it's used in some other way).

In Deadly Premonition you get a photo from the clues you found.

Came here the first time to say "GTA: San Andreas" but someone had been faster.

Well, I've just discovered Disneyland Adventures through some giveaways, and it has an achievement for photographing all of the hidden Mickeys :)

Poi has a sidequest (+an achievement if you finish it) in which you have to take pictures of the different creatures you encounter through the game

In A trip to Yugoslavia the protagonist is an amateur photographer and you have to look for your camera during the game as an objective. However you never use this camera and there are no other photography elements in the game.

Edit: Also in both Condemned games you sometimes have to use your camera to investigate crime scenes. Not really a major game element tho.

Condemned: Criminal Origins has some photography and other cool tech-elements

No One Lives Forever 1 and 2 have a spy camera in your possession.
https://nolf.fandom.com/wiki/Lipstick_Spy_Camera
https://nolf.fandom.com/wiki/Spy-Glasses

Jurassic Park Operation Genesis (JP Tycoon) has a safari ride attraction, where you can ride around and take photoes of your dinosaurs, earning money as your pictures appear in newspapers (allegedly)

You might want to check this one:

Depth Hunter 2: Deep Dive
https://store.steampowered.com/app/248530/Depth_Hunter_2_Deep_Dive/

Taking underwater photos of reef and fish is main part of the game (quests). There are also a bunch of achievements that involve taking high quality photos, 50 100 and 200 of them if i'm not mistaken.

In 60 Parsecs! you can save a time lapse inside of a spaceship (where the game takes place) and share it after each run.

Bump!

Updated; and added Sims 3 xpac World Adventures for the photography career/skill added in it.

Jurassic world evolution
https://store.steampowered.com/app/648350/

While riding the jeep you can make photographs and sell it for in-game currency. There were about 10 achievements about making photographs with some specific requirements, like a photo about socializing Velociraptors or a photo about a fight which involve a T-Rex and an Indominus Rex, etc.

Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/945160/
Comedy and game/movie etc reference oriented point and click game. It is fun, but I think it is a bit too expensive.

Rarest achievement asking for use a phone and so create a photo of everything you can. The protagonist is a vlogger and that also includes some photography. Pretty new game and there wasn't much info about it so I also created an achievement guide for it which also include all object which can be photographed: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1883901857

Well, if you want to check some gameplay about it here is my full (as fast as possible) playthrough about said game:
https://youtu.be/uKmWEEw3q5M

In Final Fantasy XV you can take photos manualy, and one of the charracters does it by himself. Not only are they fun to look at, but also are nicely integrated in the story at the very end, wich makes it either heratbreaking or hilarious, depending on what you chose.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/637650/FINAL_FANTASY_XV_WINDOWS_EDITION/

GTA V !

Updated. Apologies for taking so long, been dealing with stuff.

Does streaming count? My own game Sento Stream is about a live stream from Japanese bath. NSFW, of course ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

National Geographic - Safari Adventures: Africa
I played this recently on PS2, but filling infos on How Long To Beat, I also found out there is Wii and PC edition.
The protagonist will take picture of animals he meets on his adventure. It's kind of cutscene, were you just see animals and protagonist move, then effect of flash on screen appears and there are some texts/voices of animals saying something before/after shot is taken, like "Cheers", etc.

Perhaps you can view these photos, because there is photo book, but I didn't look it up yet. As well as section with "bio" for each animal.
Let me check that tomorrow/day after tomorrow, since now it's too late to get to PS2 and check that.

Make the same list with cats