This document discusses documentary photography and the different types of images used to tell narratives or stories through photographs. It defines documentary photography as using real events to provide a factual record or report, sometimes with accompanying text. Some subgenres of documentary photography mentioned include portraiture, documentary landscape, photojournalism, live events, street photography, and sports photography. The document then discusses using establishing shots, detailed shots, main shots, and concluding shots to compositionally create a story or narrative. It provides examples of each type of shot. The last section provides examples of student and artist documentary projects.

1. AS Digital Photography
Established, Detailed, Main and
Concluding – different types of
images.

2. Documentary Photography
• What is it?
• What sub genre’s fit into documentary photography?
Documentary Photography is a narrative or story being told
through photographs that involves real events to provide a
factual record or report (and sometimes this is
complimented with text).
• Portraiture, documentary landscape, photojournalism, live
events, street photography, self portraiture, sports photography.

3. TYPES OF IMAGES
• narratives :
– a story or an account of a sequence of events in the order
in which they happened.
– the art or process of telling a story or giving an account of
something.
Compositionally you can use the following types of shots to
create a story:
• Establishing
• Detailed,
• Main and
• Concluding shots.

4. EDMC
• Establishing
• Detailed
• Main
• Concluding

5. Establishing
• Is the beginning of a narrative – sets the
scene.
And’Art, 2009.
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6. Detailed
• Looks at specific detail of an item that is part of the
narrative. Close up, detailed.

7. Main
Shows the main part of the story. Could be portraits of people involved or a
shot of the main part of the event.

8. Main

9. Concluding
Completes the story

10. College Poster –
your narrative
student example
using different
types of images

11. Establishing

13. Main shots

14. Detailed

16. • On your new post it note write down the
following:
• What Makes a good documentary project?
• Key skills you might use
• Any other photographers you could name
• Once complete - stick it next to your original post
it note onto the wall

17. • Plan and prepare to produce your own
narrative / short story at home.
• For instance this could be someone cooking
dinner, going to college etc
• You should have 4 – 6 photographs, printed
on normal paper at least A5 in your
skecthbook.

18. Artist Examples

19. Fistful of Dreams by Nishant Ratnakar
• Watch the multimedia project: http://nishantratnakar.com/portfolio/multi-media/fistful-of-dreams/

20. Sarah Fishlock - Middlemen
• http://www.foto8.com/new/online/photo-stories/1508-middlemen