Narrative structure is about story and plot: the content of a story and the form used to tell the story.  Narrative structures within photography contain a set of photographs which tell a story or explore a theme through either similar photographs or ones that lead onto each other. Below are three narrative structures that I have produced with my own photographs.

This narrative structure explores the theme of destruction and reconstruction. In the first picture it shows the memories, that are the bears, inside a shell of the house they once inhabited. In the second photograph more context is provided – it is on a building site ready to be demolished. In the fourth photograph you get to look at a past project behind a current project and it foreshadows the outcome for the project. In the fifth photograph it shows the reconstruction beginning to make something new. The sixth photograph then shows the building in progress.

I believe that this is my best sequence as it shows development throughout the sequence and looks at many different subjects to provide a variety of photographs whilst remaining in context.

This sequence looks at the theme of nature taking over man. The large van with the ironic phrase ‘isle move it’ upon the side has been left to rot and has slowly been taken over by nature. Throughout the sequence you can see in more and more detail how destroyed and run down the van has become over time.

This sequence explores the theme of the people of St. Helier.  It looks at the different occupations and environments that the people of St. Helier thrive in. It shows the current state of St. Helier and the people that we will one day all be successors to.