The difference between narrative photography and documentary photography

Documentary photography is created directly from the prototype of social life, taking the photographer's eyes as an extended lens to see through the reality of society, nature and human beings. This photography activity is also a conscious activity. We should seize the right opportunity, choose society, nature and people, and set out from their environment to contrast and express their psychological activities, so as to convey a kind of content to be expressed.

There are also many classifications of documentary photography:

According to the amount of information: news photography, "TV drama" documentary photography, "film" documentary photography.

According to the shooting theme, there are major events, people's lives and social scenery.

The main purpose of narrative photography is to record events and is a kind of documentary photography. A single work has the narrative characteristics of a single picture, which describes a certain person, a certain thing and a certain kind of thing locally. A group of documentary works is to observe and shoot the subject for a long time. Not only the single picture in the group photo is narrative, but also the whole group is narrative, and the editing of the group photo is also very particular. The purpose is to provide readers with a clue to interpret the work, which must follow a certain logical relationship.