Understanding Narrative in a fashion editorial
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At the beginning of this brief I knew I wanted to shoot a form of fashion editorial, but I was unsure of the extent an editorial can be considered a narrative; whether it was possible for a studio shot editorial to be of a narrative nature as there wouldn't be much of a setting or location to carry the story and for a story to progress.
I turned to google and spent ages looking for examples as nothing coming up was quite explaining it in a way I understood or could relate to.
I stumbled across Grant Scott, a senior lecturer of photography at the university of Gloucestershire, and this article titled 'That's not a fashion photograph'. I found it incredible helpful in eliminating any brain fog I had surrounding the purpose of fashion imagery, and explained to me that a narrative can be as simple as all images in a series were about a jumper, and therefore this is a narrative about said jumper.
This stood out to me most from the article:
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