In photography, a narrative is the way of telling a story through a set of pictures. On the whole, this is usually easier than the alternative of trying to sum up a story in one single photograph.
A set of photographs like this is called a Picture Essay. They can contain anything from 3 or 4 photograph or in some cases, a dozen or more.
Before I started the narrative project, I decided to research more into picture essays, photojournalism and narrative photography so I could gain some more knowledge of what was needed of my photographs.
Photojournalism:
Photojournalism is a form of journalism which uses images and photographs in order to tell a news story, for publication or broadcast. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism.
The one rule in photojournalism is that the work is both honest and impartial, whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms.
Photojournalism is a form of narrative photography, and I suppose in some cases, can be picture essays especially if used in magazines etc as you can use more than one image, making it a picture essay and not just one photograph which sums up the story.
I found a powerful photograph by Samuel Aranda who won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year. Even though this isn’t a picture essay, this image is extremely powerful and tells a story (Narrative).
‘Narrative photography is the idea that photographs can be used to tell a story’ Wikipedia.
Duane Michals : An American photographer who uses photography to create interesting, and unusual photo sequences and narratives. He worked mostly around themes, investigating; love, emotion, philosophy, life and
death. He also used text to strengthen the narrative.
Duane Michals work on the other hand, uses more than one photograph, which makes it a picture essay (Narrative essay).
Paradise Regained 1968
Chantelle Grace Photography 