Making a beginning to develop the skill for creating a photo essay and a photographic project as readiness for visual research

 Once you become apt in handling a camera for taking different kinds of snapshots, you must try to make a transition to photo-essays and photographic projects.

A photo-essay consists of is a series of photographs that are intended to tell a story as well evoke related emotions among the viewers.

However, for a photo-essay, one has to choose a topic, issue, event, change or theme and create a story line with 4 to 8 frames with each of them working like a paragraph.

Photo-essays can be of three kinds as follows.

• Solely photographic or without text

• Photographs with captions or small phrasal texts

• Narrative with full text essays accompanying photographs 

Some tips

Focus on a new subject to try new compositions and break out of your normal photography routine.

Project Subject ideas can be even related to variety in objects, such as shoes, gates, statues, flags, Window grills, patters, trees, Doors, Chairs, furniture pieces, interiors, hoardings, etc.

Such projects would develop your visual thinking, linguistic thinking, social skills and eye for composition, patterns and designs.

  • Visit a site or find a location to go to for a day to do reporting about what is happening, behind the scenes things, interview different people.
  • Start turning a day out into reportage activity. Find a location one would normally go to for a day out but treat this day out more as reportage - photograph behind the scenes shots, interview people or ask for their comments. 
  • In the first shot, the location appears first, usually starting with the city and the spot in which the reporter has taken the photos and written the report with text and interviews. 
  • A photo-graphic reporter researches, takes relevant photographs, writes, and reports on information in order to present in sources, conduct interviews, engage people present at a spot. 

In photographic project reporting is location-based, along with photographing; it involves researching, information-gathering and report writing with relevant photographs thrown in.

This is more of learning by doing and practice-based skill after one has developed the camera sense.

Note: Reproduced from slideshare post which got discontinued

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