typeface to go with photographs of various kinds

I'm wondering how people choose typeface to set texts that go with
photographs of various kinds. The text might be the label to put by
the prints, or some sort of statements, vitae, etc. that may be
presented or submitted with prints. Since this group has people from
academic world or of super fastidious nature (or both), I thought to
ask what kind of factors do you consider in printing such texts. I
mentioned typeface because it's necessary to print any text, but I'm
also interested in other aspects of printing.

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"You have to realize that junk is not the problem in and of itself.
Junk is the symptom, not the problem."
(Bob Dylan 1971; source: No Direction Home by Robert Shelton)