Warm-up: Investigating Story using Professional Photographers.
The purpose of a photo story is to communicate using photographs.
Some stories can be told with one photograph, but some need multiple photos.
These multiple photo stories are called photographic essays.
Just as in writing an essay, a short story, or a poem the photographer must first have an idea of what they want to say.
In a photographic essay it is images instead of words that are carefully selected, composed, and arranged to create a greater understanding of your idea, concept or story.
Photojournalists – Professional Story Tellers
Dorothea Lange
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Tokyo Compression by Michael Wolf
Every day thousands and thousands of people enter this subsurface hell for two or more hours, constrained between glass, steel and other people who roll to their place of work and back home beneath the city. In Michael Wolf’s pictures we look into countless human faces, all trying to sustain this evident madness in their own way.
— Christian Schüle
Every day thousands and thousands of people enter this subsurface hell for two or more hours, constrained between glass, steel and other people who roll to their place of work and back home beneath the city. In Michael Wolf’s pictures we look into countless human faces, all trying to sustain this evident madness in their own way.
— Christian Schüle
Here is a link to Tokyo Rush Hour.
Break Time by Etienne Buyse
Waiting for a bus.
Resting for a while, thinking of nothing, or just about what really matters.
Days go by. Sitting down and wondering about everyday life. Dodging the routine, the absurd.
In short, a break time.
The real world? Often there is fear, chaos. Or boredom.
Everywhere there are screens, like shields of glass: screens of televisions, computers, phones…
Everywhere screens—not to mention the camera screen—as if to glaze over the real.
Putting it in a box to protect ourselves from it, to disguise it or to be entertained.
And sometimes, to try to enchant the real.
—Etienne Buyse
Waiting for a bus.
Resting for a while, thinking of nothing, or just about what really matters.
Days go by. Sitting down and wondering about everyday life. Dodging the routine, the absurd.
In short, a break time.
The real world? Often there is fear, chaos. Or boredom.
Everywhere there are screens, like shields of glass: screens of televisions, computers, phones…
Everywhere screens—not to mention the camera screen—as if to glaze over the real.
Putting it in a box to protect ourselves from it, to disguise it or to be entertained.
And sometimes, to try to enchant the real.
—Etienne Buyse
Adde Adesokan
Triptychs of Strangers is a continuing series by Adde Adesokan, where the goal is to “meet total strangers – get to know them - take three personality-matching body shots - make them one.”
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt is known for incorporating humor into his photographs.
Warm-up: Investigating Story using Professional Photographers.
Using this Google Form…
Pick one of the images or set of images above…
and tell me the story you get from it.
Think of what happened before, during and after the image.
Submit the assignment in Google Classroom when the Google form is complete.