I am in the process of reinventing myself as a photographer. I used to call myself, a” creator of beautiful images”…. mostly of females.
I look back on a lot of the images I have created over the last 6 months, and some of them have beauty to them… But a theme that has developed is the story within the image.
When I look at the images I am the most proud of, they are images that do tell a story…. Maybe not a complex story, but more then just pretty girl standing on white seamless background.
So I have been thinking how to become more of a storyteller in my images.
The first thing that I then start to grapple with is storytelling vs documentary vs photojournalism.
Am I interested in photojournalism….usually the telling of sad or disturbing stories…. Not very interesting to me.
Documentary….. Using an image or series of images to document or explore a subject…..maybe.
Storytelling does not have to be a “real” story…. It can be an old story ( Cinderella) or it can be a new story ( street photography).
I tried explaining my ideas to a couple of interested people today, and failed miserably. A sure sign that I either lack the vision or the passion of my idea.
Then my next question is, how do I make a living with images that tell stories?
Still working this out.
I still have many more questions then answers. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
