This master thesis explores the topic of techniques used for photography animation. The thesis tries to numbers all the techniques known today. Techniques that are mentioned are lenticular photography, parallax photography, cinemagraph, timelapse, hyper-lapse and stop-motion. For each technique a concise insight is provided into it’s history and it’s main representatives while also describing the creation process and listing the equipment necessary for creating it. Some of the listed techniques are tested in this thesis and presented as a photo essay. For that reason the term photo essay is aditionally explored: what the term means, the creative process behind it and which types of photo essays exist. In the process of creating animated photographies for this thesis as many tehniques as possible were used and later presented in an interesting way while also describing how they were created, what their flaws and advantages are. An insight is also given into the creative process behind a project like this from the planning faze and storyboard creation to the photo editing and animation part of the project. The main conclusion is that animated photography has a bright future with technologies and softwares that make creative process easier and with widely accessible devices that make content like this attractive.