Nearly Narrative: Some Domestic Stories

I really like a lot of the photos in this reading. I found them to be quite sinister and even somewhat humours. I would really like to emulate this style in my own photography. Wether the images are exaggerations of the past or just depicting memories in a different way, i believe using family and personal experience is a really strong source of inspiration that can allow both photographer and viewer to connect with the resulting images.

Shots like the one of the girl in a party dress in danger of having beers drunkenly spilt over her engage directly to the audience (to myself anyway) because they seem so familiar. I have no similar looking family members or memories of a similar situation but its just seems like something so typical of the average daggy family and plausible in my own childhood.

I think making the shift form album to book can be as subtle as having neatly bordered and labled images. It can however change by the difference of throwing images together compared to having an underlying story or intricate theme that transforms the images into an idea or lasting thought rather than a collections of snapshots that are enjoyed then instantly forgotten.