What is Narrative Photography?

Narrative Photography is storytelling through pictures – where the question is often more important than the answer. There can be so many different ideas linked to this. Narrative can be photojournalism, it can be telling a whole story, or telling small parts of them. What I like to see when I look at narrative photography is parts of the story. I like this because it then enables you to think, and pose questions. Narrative is respected in the photography world. The reason being is because it can be so difficult to capture the right image. Many people attempt narrative, only a handful can pull it off brilliantly.

The pure intelligence these photographers must have inspires me. They are imaginative and have such wonderful ideas. Because there are so many ways in which narrative could be taken, it must be hard to find the right idea to go with and be what people would want to see. You have to get this bit right, because if you don't then people won't think highly of your work. You need to listen to what people want to see in photography if you want to be considered as anything more than an amateur.

When will I research Narrative

During my photography lessons, during my free periods at school and after school is when I have decided to research and explore narrative photography.

I feel that I need to 'catch up' on lost time which I had spent printing.

By doing this I should hopefully gain e abetter understanding of Narrative photography quicker.

When I went to show my skills

When I went to this primary school I was able to display my artwork in a gallery for them so that they were able to see what different things they would be able to create with printing. I got good responses from them.

They seemed to like the look of what I had made. This gave me a lot of confidence when I was there and I was able to demonstrate the new skills in which I had picked up over the few weeks to them.

They were able to produce some good prints too.

However, I did feel like this was not much of a challenge, and I felt like creating prints was too easy for me. Yes, I had developed new skills, but it was not very challenging.

I didn't feel like this is what is wanted to do, I felt like I should be more involved with something else.

So to link in with my school work, I felt like learning a different type of photography would be a good idea.

One type of photography I had never looked at before was Narrative Photography.

I felt like this would be more of a challenge. As I started looking into this, I realised there was a lot of skill involved in creating the 'right' narrative photographic piece. This confirmed my thought, and I felt like this would be right to research more about and look into this further.