documentary photography: creating narrative with different types of images

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