Narrative Photography, Research & Ideas.

                                  
Whilst researching photographers that would help inspire me to create my own series of narrative photography, I found it difficult to define and distinguish A 'Narrative Photographer' as all photography has a narrative and can be perceived differently by  individuals.

 Finding a starting point was difficult for me therefore I went out and took photographs on my phone in order to develop from this point. I took photographs of a place that was personal to me and hopefully portray to others this narrative. 

 After taking these photographs I looked into photographers who have also spent time taking photographs of a specific place in the hopes of developing my own idea by gaining inspiration from others.

 After looking at different photographers I decided to look at one of my favourite documentary photographers Martin Parr and his series of photographs 'Think Of England'

which documents and in my perception narrates England, I believe that this series of photographs has a narrative as you can see the way Parr has portrayed his English Heritage by documenting people and places in his imagery.

Martin Parr - 'Think Of England'

This series of photographs created by Martin Parr were produced from 1995- 1999 and were all took in England, to me the photographs portray England before the modern generation and technology and show true English Heritage and Parr has produced this by documenting people at places such as seaside resorts and in their natural environment, he also includes photographs of items such as cups of tea and cakes and English newspapers and on a whole the series does its intention and makes us think of England.

The majority of Parr's photographs in the series 'Think Of England' are really bright colours and high contrast, this makes the imagery have an over all bright feel about it and therefore to me that gives the photos a more positive feel, which makes me believe that Parr intended on portraying his country proudly.

The bright colours also make the images more dated and therefore it gives more of a historic feel to the photograph which makes it feel like it has more of history and narrative.