The document provides guidance for creating a narrative photographic project documenting a trip to Birmingham using one of four styles: portraits of people at work, street photography, street portraits, or documentary landscape. It discusses each style and provides examples of photographers known for that approach. Students are instructed to research one photographer in their chosen style and use establishing, detailed, main, and concluding shots to tell a story through images about Birmingham.

1. Birmingham Trip – creating a narrative

2. 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.
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Compositionally you can use the following types of shots to
create a story:
Establishing
Detailed,
Main and
Concluding shots.

3. Practical Task – Birmingham Trip
You have to document a short story, your narrative, on
Birmingham using one of the following styles of documentary:
•Portraits of people at work
•Street photography
•Street portraits
•Documentary landscape
RESEARCH a photographer that shoots in one of these styles
of documentary photography for your artist comparison.

4. People at work
An aspect of Social documentary photography, it’s the
recording of humans in their natural condition with a camera.
Often it also refers to a socially critical genre of photography
dedicated to showing the life of underprivileged or
disadvantaged people, influenced by the work of lewis hine
and Jacob Riis

5. Martin Parr – black country stories

6. Jonathan Bielaski

7. Prakash Sach – portraits of workers

8. Street Portraits
• Engage with your subjects, be confident and
approachable
• Smile!
• Who will you photograph and why?
• Ask a question – get a quote from each
subject for your captions
• If you get rejected, try and try again! Don’t
give up!

9. Nick Eagle – Portraits of people in
bham
http://www.bleaf.co.uk.

10. Humans of New York by Brandon
Stanton

11. Niall McDermid

12. Gillian Wearing
Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say
What Someone Else Wants You To Say

13. Phillip Lorca Di Corca - heads

14. Street style portraits
by Karuna Gurung

15. Street Photography
1) Use of Juxtaposition to express humor or something more serious
2) Decisive moment
3) Documenting an incident
4 )A Personal view on a location
5) Public areas
6) Ensuring every image has a point/concept/story or purpose
7) Use of lighting

16. Nick Turpin

17. Matt Smith, London

18. Beat Streuli - New Street
See more in the online gallery here: http://www.ikongallery.co.uk/programme/current/gallery/673/new_street/

19. Bruce Gilden – Head On
'I'm known for taking pictures very close,
and the older I get, the closer I get.'

20. Henri Cartier Bresson

21. The Photography Collective –
Orchestra of Disorientation
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Based in Birmingham – street photography and documentation made into
film: https://vimeo.com/20236127

22. Documentary landscape
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Compositionally you can use the following types of shots
to create a story with your documentary landscape:
Establishing
Detailed,
Main and
Concluding shots.

23. Natan dvir

24. Clarissa Bonet – City Space

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photographer Derek Fairbrother took a series of images from the same spot in
Birmingham’s Chamberlain square between 1963 and 1986.
Video:
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http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/10/fairbrother-time-lapse-sequence/

26. “I wanted the buildings to look like models, and to photograph them from above
on sunny days so there was a sense of a singular light source” – Tom Merilion

27. Aerial photographs of Birmingham. Merilion achieved this by photographing from
a small aircraft flying low over the city centre. He used an architectural lens the
wrong way round, with a selective focus and a polarizing filter to emphasize the
colours of sky and foliage.

28. Robert Walker

29. Series of work: metropoli project 2000 – 2003. Includes images on Birmingham and
other major UK cities.
http://www.johndavies.uk.com/

30. Matt Murtagh