Here I tried to do something a little bit differently. I still used myself but I wanted to make it seem a little more disturbing. This is just strawberry jam and at first was just a little test as I had not done a photo shoot in a while. These are also just photos on my phone so i'd like to upgrade to my camera for some better quality shots.

These images remind me of a horror film or a crime program, I like how you don't know what is going on. I have used only the legs to just give a glimpse of the photograph. Leaving you to wonder, who is this girl? What has happened? 

"A photograph is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know."

Ideas

I Just want to write down a few ideas, I have been thinking about stepping out of the box aka my home and getting in touch with nature within my photographs. Near where I live is a great big woods that I just want to let loose in. Finding a model that will work in this cold is difficult so Im just going to have to carry on regardless.

Ideas.
1. Girl in woods - or in room blindfolded. - Mattress on floor - candles bound legs. (mere childish game or something more?) Need maybe two or three models?

2. Girl surrounded by books, bible is open in her lap but someone is forcibly holding her hand down at.a certain scripture regarding innocence lost.

3. Girl in woods with torch or lamp (obviously with artificial light inside as no electric) hands tied. Focus on hands. Work with that.

4. Lie in bath - arm outstretched. Someone in the doorway. (rough idea work with that) subtle is key.

Lawrence Ripsher

“Narrative Photography… If I had a style, narrative photography would be it.
“Storytelling through pictures” – where the question is often more important than the answer.

This is a growing catalog of all the work that I consider to be worthy of the phrase that a picture is worth a thousand words.”

“Fragments”

"I believe the best narrative is where you pose questions but don’t necessarily provide all the answers – it’s about stimulating a train of thought, just enough to pull the viewer in and then force them to complete the rest."
Lawrence Ripsher

Gregory Crewdson

'I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.'  (Gregory Crewdson, Written to accompany the exhibition Twilight. V&A.)

Gregory Crewdson, working with the american suburb created these stage set designs into these eeiry events that take place at twilight. Just like the style of Cindy Sherman his photographs almost look like stills within a film, in his case a thriller or sci-fi.

Every detail of these images is meticulously planned and staged, in particular the lighting. In some instances, extra lighting and special effects such as artificial rain or dry ice are used to enhance a natural moment of twilight. In others, the effect of twilight is entirely artificially created. All the images propose twilight as a poetic condition. It is a metaphor for, and backdrop to, uncanny events that momentarily transport actors from the homeliness and security of their suburban context. (Gregory Crewdson, Written to accompany the exhibition Twilight. V&A).

I love his work for it makes me uneasy, it makes me feel uncomfortable and i believe this is exactly what he wanted to create,  You really have to imagine what is going on outside, and your mind can think up the craziest of things. In this case a picture really is stronger then a 1000 words. 

Gregory Crewdson, 
Untitled from the series Twilight, 
2001-2, © 



Gregory Crewdson
Untitled from the series 'Twilight'
2001-2



Gregory Crewdson
Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses'
2004

Jennifer Zwick

Constructed Narrative

My constructed-narrative photographs are nonlinear short stories. They focus on bizarrely adventurous young girls populating beautiful but uneasy worlds. To create these images, I draw from childhood fantasies and memories, then construct life-sized environments. By pushing these scenarios to an extreme conclusion, the girls become metaphors for our hyper-real childhood selves, where remembered emotions become stronger through time.

(Jennifer Zwicks artists statement on Constructed Narrative.)

The Explorers, 2005

Archival pigment print
40" x 32"

The Reader, 2005

Archival pigment print
40" x 32"

I love these images, they're beautiful little stories on how inquisitive we all can be. Still however we can still feel a danger lurking, We know that girls just cannot go exploring on their own and who supplied the books within the woods? Because of my research I know exactly how these are created for she supplies this information to us - be if we view these just as narrative we wonder, how did she get there? Why is she on her own? Viewing this artist has made me want to break my boundaries and actually step outside. Open up my imagination to create some weird and wonderful things. 

http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/in-narrative-photo-exhibition-every-picture-tells-a-story/

The photos in the exhibition — 64 works from 23 photographers from around the United States — use metaphor, open-ended narrative and subtle manipulation to inspire stories in the viewers’ imaginations. The photos provide the building blocks, but the narrative remains open to/for interpretation.