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PHOTO ESSAY.

A photo essay is intended to tell a story (Links to an external site.) or evoke emotion from the viewers through a series of photographs. They allow you to be creative (Links to an external site.) and fully explore an idea.So here’s a list of photo essay examples. Choose one that you can do easily based on your photographic level and equipment.

Photo Essay Project

Create a photo essay consisting of 10 photographs on a particular theme or subject of your choice. The photographs can be of any style (landscape, urban decay, your street, your school, a collection of similar things, and so on) as long as there is a unifying theme or subject. Your photo essay needs to have personal meaning behind it and needs to speak to an audience by telling a story that goes beyond the images as individual photos.

What overall point are the images as a group going to make? What are they going to reveal?

This project will prompt you to consider the planning, shooting, editing, polishing steps in photography. You’ll discover and practice story telling strategies: choosing a subject, identifying a theme, collecting and compiling information, supporting your theme by choosing your content, organizing and planning your information, focusing your material with different angles, wide, medium and close shots

Instructions

  1. Choose a subject matter or an idea for your photo essay that matters to you and is accessible as you are working on
  2. Collect your “data” by taking photos that may relate to your
  3. Organize your photos by determining an introduction, middle, and conclusion.
  4. Choose a title for your essay that expresses yourtheme

Considerations

  1. Describe your subject matter or idea for your photo essay.
  2. What is your rationale for choosing this subject oridea?
  3. When and where do you plan to take thephotos?
  4. What are some potential problems that you might encounter and how can you avoidthem?
  5. How will you use your photos to communicate the essence of your message to youraudience?
  6. Consider your style visual components, format. and image

helpful Steps

  1. Brainstorm a topic that relates to one of the ideas listed
  2. Create images that fit your topic. pick the best images to tell your
  3. Share ideas with a classmate in order to get
  4. Once you have some or all of your images gathered, think about how those images will bearranged
  5. Create a draft of your essay to show for feedback, can your classmates easily identify yourthesis?
  6. Revise your photo-essay by rearranging or cropping the photographs, or gathering other photographs to include or
  7. Create a final layout of your photographs and export to the shareddrive

Use the following questions as a guide when you get stuck

  1. What is the topic of theessay?
  2. Who is the intended audience for thisessay?
  3. Is there an identifiable theme that links the photostogether?
  4. How does the sequencing of photos help to accomplishpurpose?

Evaluation

  1. content (interesting subject matter for you and youraudience)
  2. that your photo essay tells a compelling story though imagesequence
  3. the images are being thoughtful, andsubstantiated
  4. your essay is appropriately constructed for your intendedaudience
  5. original, creative and thoughtful

Optional:

  1. Write a paragraph in which you explain, as the author, your purpose in creating the photo-essay and include paragraph – called an “Artist’s Statement” — with your
  2. Write a reflection of one or more paragraphs in which you connect the experience of creating your photo-essay to other assignments you’ve done in class, and also reflect upon what you have learned as it relates to you academically and

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