1a spoken or written account of connected events; a story:"a gripping narrative"
[MASS NOUN] the practice or art of telling stories:"traditions of oral narrative" a representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values:"the coalition’s carefully constructed narrative about its sensitivity to recession victims" "Narrative photography, sometimes called documentary photography, involves carefully selecting images and scenes to create a story. Rather than focusing on one key moment of an event, narrative photography captures images and moments throughout an event, allowing the story to unfold." http://www.ehow.com/info_12108302_defining-elements-narrative-photography.html
Using Photography to Create Visual Narratives
Cig Harvey Here's a video i came across on YouTube, it's really worth watching, it has helped me understand much more about what narrative photography is and has given me some great ideas and inspiration. The photographer Cig Harvey bases all of her narrative photographs around herself. The images can almost be considered as self portraits even though she doesn't physically appear in all of them. Shes inspired by and makes images, to do with her own feelings, thoughts and experiences. After seeing this, I feel to create my own narrative photographs, I would probably do best in looking into my own life experiences and how I am feeling at this time in my life and use those ideas to create images as I feel by basing a narrative photograph around myself, I will be able to capture an image representing something I have a strong connection with or have true feelings about. A couple of the ideas I took from this video were;
Using landscape photography to express how you're feeling inside
Using photography to represent or remember a moment; the idea of capturing an image to represent the hard times you or a close friend are going through
Using landscape as escapism
Capturing an image which represents the way in which you feel you're up against something bigger than yourself and not having the tools to deal with it
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