documentary photography: creating narrative with different types of images
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AS Digital Photography
Established, Detailed, Main and Concluding – different types of
images.
Documentary Photography
• What is it?• What sub genre’s fit into documentary photography?
Documentary Photography is a narrative or story being told through photographs that involves real events to provide a factual record or report (and sometimes this is complimented with text).
• Portraiture, documentary landscape, photojournalism, live events, street photography, self portraiture, sports photography.
TYPES OF IMAGESTYPES OF IMAGES• narratives :
– a story or an account of a sequence of events in the order in which they happened.
– the art or process of telling a story or giving an account of something.
Compositionally you can use the following types of shots to create a story:
• Establishing • Detailed, • Main and • Concluding shots.
EDMC
• Establishing
• Detailed
• Main
• Concluding
Establishing
• Is the beginning of a narrative – sets the scene.
And’Art, 2009. All images © Jaskirt Dhaliwal.
For more info go to: http://www.jaskirtdhaliwal.co.uk/gallery_296587.html
Detailed
• Looks at specific detail of an item that is part of the narrative. Close up, detailed.
MainShows the main part of the story. Could be portraits of people involved or a shot of the main part of the event.
Main
ConcludingCompletes the story
College Poster – your narrative
student example
using different types of images
Establishing
Main shots
Detailed
• On your new post it note write down the following:
• What Makes a good documentary project?• Key skills you might use• Any other photographers you could name
• Once complete - stick it next to your original post it note onto the wall
• Plan and prepare to produce your own narrative / short story at home.
• For instance this could be someone cooking dinner, going to college etc
• You should have 4 – 6 photographs, printed on normal paper at least A5 in your skecthbook.
Artist Examples
Fistful of Dreams by Nishant Ratnakar
• Watch the multimedia project: http://nishantratnakar.com/portfolio/multi-media/fistful-of-dreams/
Sarah Fishlock - Middlemen • http://www.foto8.com/new/online/photo-stories/1508-middlemen