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Storytelling through photographic images

Storytelling through photographic images

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Storytelling through photographic images

- I'm here today with photojournalist Paul Taggart. Paul, storytelling is an obvious part of photojournalism. But you take the idea of storytelling really into all of your work, into taking individual shots. So, I wanna talk today about storytelling, and let's start with a definition. What is a story? (laughing) - In the simplest sense, to me it's uh... you've got a character, and they're going through something, and there's you know, the typical, you know, definition, there's a beginning, middle and the end, and we're going through a voyage here. And I think you're completely right, sometimes that can be in a single frame, which is really hard. I've only done that a couple times. There's some photographers that are masters of that. And, you know, it's a difficult thing. For me, I reply more on photo essays so I'll construct a story, with multiple images, which sometimes the story is told over months or years or, it's a single event you know, that's my kind of narrative that I'm used…

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