CDME3028 Documentary Photography - Project brief Introduction A Series of Documentary Photographs in the form of a Book or an Interactive Multimedia package. Photo Essay, 75%. (note the remaining 25% is weighted against the Critical Evaluation, details on Blackboard and below). Introduction Photo essays and monographs have a long tradition in documentary photography as a means of telling a ‘story’ or expressing a narrative visually. Story telling is a powerful way of engaging and communicating with an audience as you will know if you have ever been immersed in, or been moved by, a film, novel or play. Background A photographic series, essay (not to be confused with written forms) or monograph is a collection of images that are placed in a specific order to tell a story or evoke an emotion in the viewer. They range from purely photographic works but can often include images with captions, notes, interactivity and even sound (with the advent of multimedia and the Internet). Mo...
These are my chosen photographs for my project - 'Individuality' and the ones i will be putting into my book. Because i was photographing people which were so different and each had completely different personalities, i wanted to make sure that the photographs represented this. This was a risky decision to make as i wanted all my images to fit together as my own work and not to look like a different photographers work on each different page but at the same time i didn't want the subjects to all appear the same as they were all different. to tackle this i tried to keep similar coloured and plain backgrounds. i feel the images all look like my work as the framing, positioning of subject and colours are all similar, obviously not exactly the same but thats what i wanted, each of these people were different and if i had produced photographs which were all exactly the same it would have contradicted my project of individuality and would not have been a true r...
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