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Places in Photos
Places in Photos
Place-based narrative photography focuses on capturing and conveying stories, emotions, and narratives by emphasising the significance of specific locations or places. It goes beyond just documenting the physical appearance of a place and aims to tell a deeper story by incorporating elements of the environment, people, events, and cultural context. This style of photography involves using images to evoke a sense of time, history, and human experience associated with a particular place. By visually exploring the interactions, activities, and changes that occur within these spaces, photographers can create a cohesive narrative that offers viewers insights into the essence and character of the location. Place-based narrative photography often draws inspiration from documentary photography, as it shares the goal of capturing reality and conveying a message through visual storytelling.
Crawford, T. (2021) 'What is a Theme in Photography?' URL
Remember Hiroshimasuko Photos?
Remember Hiroshimasuko Photos?
How did Hiroshima use place to influence his photos?
What do the photos below make us think about or feel in relation to the place?
Consider how camera choices affected your thoughts and feelings:
Roberts, M. (n.d.) 'Montclair NJ' URL
Severence, B. (n.d.) 'Dad's Desk / Kitchen Island / Mid-afternoon Summer Nap' URL
“How do we leave an impression of ourselves behind? Brittany Severance’s warmly lit interior scenes are heavy with human presence, yet no one appears in the photographs. There is a stillness to each arrangement, each object in the home a clue.”
“How do we leave an impression of ourselves behind? Brittany Severance’s warmly lit interior scenes are heavy with human presence, yet no one appears in the photographs. There is a stillness to each arrangement, each object in the home a clue.”
– Jacqui Palumbo
– Jacqui Palumbo
Places Have Meaning
Places Have Meaning
How many Canberra district school students does it take to change a light bulb?
Canberra Girls Grammar – One. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.
Narrabundah College – Two. One to change the bulb and one to figure out how to get high off the old one.
Goulburn High – None. Everyone is either suspended or wagging (including the teachers).
Lake Tuggeranong College – Thirty One. One to change the blub and thirty to paint interpretive murals about it all over Civic.
Grant, L. (n.d.) 'Belco Pride' URL
'Belco Pride' by Lee Grant
'Belco Pride' by Lee Grant
“Belco’s a hole…. but it’s our hole.”
'Belco Pride' was a photo book developed by Lee Grant, capturing areas around the very specific locations of north-western suburbs in Canberra, known as 'Belco.' Having grown up in the area, Grant reflected on them, revisiting as an adult. While some areas are basic, functional suburban areas, there is something unique about the people who have developed their lives there. By capturing what the suburb looks like every day and the people that inhabit it, Grant explores ideas of identity, connection and belonging.
Class Activity: Annotate 'Belco Pride' by Lee Grant
Class Activity: Annotate 'Belco Pride' by Lee Grant
Create a documents folder called 'Belco Pride.'
Choose one-two of the six photos below and save them in your folder (to achieve higher than a C, you will need to select two).
Place both of the photos in to a OneNotes document or or go to kleki.com and draw there.
Annotate the 'Make' and 'Method' elements in the photos you have chosen.
It should start to look like this but with more detail...
It should start to look like this but with more detail...
Student Examples
Student Examples
For Your Process Journal
For Your Process Journal
C level (ish)
C level (ish)
Create a page called 'Belco Pride' in your portfolio.
Insert your annotated images
Write the heading, 'Intention,' beneath your annotated image.
Write 3-5 dot points on how the 'Make' and 'Method' elements you have identified portray the intention; which is the sense of people and place in the Belconnen region in the late 2000s.
B level (ish)
B level (ish)
Complete previous steps
Create a heading below your annotations called 'Make Intention' and one called 'Method Intention'
Beneath each of these headings, write 3-5 sentences that explore how those specific elements show the intention of the image.
Evaluate the two images. Which do you believe has done a better job of portraying its intention. Why?
A level (ish)
A level (ish)
Complete previous steps. Turn the sections you have created in to a TEEAC paragraph that compares one image to the other. How have they both utilised the parts of 'Make' and 'Method' to communicate their intention? Which one has more successfully done this?
Your topic sentences should introduce Lee Grant and her work.
Provide multiple APA references
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