I have always thought of photographs needing to tell a story as much a films do. Whether it be a commercial high-fashion shot or a flat-lay of a cheese board or a landscape shot off the Great Ocean Road – I find really captivating photos the ones that resonate thought or provoke emotion. It was really cool to see some examples of the way other photographers have created narratives through photobooks/essays/series. Was interesting to consider how photography in narrative form still needs to have a beginning, middle and end but not nessiarly in that order, similarly to film – Tracy Moffats, Something more, was one that stood out to me the most in relation to this. All photos follow the same ‘storyline’ so could really be placed in any order and still provide the same narrative of a young woman looking for ‘something more’. I think this example stood out to me because of the theatrics of the shots and how they all followed the same colour scheme throughout.

 

 

 

For the exercise this week, we needed to create a short photo series on the topic ‘passing time in my neighbourhood’. There is this really stark looking abandoned movie theatre across the road from my house that I thought would be a good example to use in relation to time past. Even though it’s quite an ugly looking building, I have quite a lot of fond memories of it from when I was growing up so I decided to add some poetic working to the photos to create more emotion.

I played around with the exposure and brightness of the photos to create a more lonely and dark feeling and used the poster boards as my close up detailed shot. I quite enjoyed this exercise and being able to create more of a narrative through the sequencing of photos.

References:

Mca.com.au. 2020. Tracey Moffatt | MCA Australia. [online] Available at: <https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/artists/tracey-moffatt/> [Accessed 24 November 2020].