Activity 2.1: Photo essay aesthetic

Find and share an aesthetic style example for your photo essay. What do you like about this style?

Activity 2.2: Photo essay subject research

Find and share a photo story from industry created on a subject similar to yours. Discuss the style/success of the approach used.

Activity 2.3: Process blog

Post the results from the above activities, along with a brief summary of what you’ve learned and any challenges you faced in Module 2: How to find and build a story, on your process blog. When completed, post a link to your blog on the Discussion Forum on the Blackboard LMS portal.

Activity 2.1: Photo essay aesthetic

I’ve been trawling the web for layouts and ideas that appeal to me. I really liked some work i found on Pinterest called Finding Friendship https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/843299098961152628/ as pictured below, the asthetic appeals to me and relates in that it’s a child’s day/life and my photo essay is about my daughter. With this piece it’s about feeling lonely and wanting friends and joining into play the narrative is simple to understand in the flow of images in the layout.

Activity 2.2: Photo essay subject research

There’s a wealth of photo essays on pride and Gay family’s on the world wide web.

I found some great ones including :-

https://prezi.com/p/6pr6ahao7bqb/photo-essay-lgbtq-rights/

it’s quite interactive every time you click the arrow it takes you to a different plot point and opens a photo and then another captioned one, not the visual style i was going for but engaging none the less.

For this part of the exercise and just in my general research over the last few months I’ve fallen in love with this site:-

https://www.gayswithkids.com/top-gay-dad-photo-essays-2018-2623322476.html

it’s a family aesthetic but geared very strongly towards Gay Dads. The kids are just adorable.

Activity 2.3: Reflections

There’s some brilliant work out there and i often find my self looking at pictures and not doing my work While I’m still attached to NAT GEO at this point I’m researching other online publications that may be interested in my essay.