Creating Visual Narratives

A Field Guide to Photography as a Craft, Career, and Calling
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-16727-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Creating Visual Narratives is a holistic guide to visual storytelling, that helps readers define their creative intent through photography.

The book draws on the decades of combined experience of authors Mike Davis and Andrea Wise across newsrooms, nonprofits, government, higher education, and the tech sector. It is organized into three parts and structured to anchor a semester-long course, guiding readers through mastering the craft of making, selecting, and sequencing images within ethical frameworks, and charting a sustainable visual career path. Throughout, thirty-three photographers share the stories behind their most meaningful images and their own career journeys, grounding each concept in real-world experience. Appendices provide teaching strategies, field-tested assignments, and a visual vocabulary to extend the book's use in and beyond the classroom.

Ideal for students, educators, and working professionals at every career stage, this book is suited to photography and visual communication courses as well as independent study.

Online support materials include a resource guide, further reading list, syllabi for educators, and a sample of LinkedIn headlines showing a wide range of roles and ways of positioning yourself as a visual professional. Readers can also visit www.michaelddavis.com and www.andreawise.com for information on upcoming book events.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Training, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Mike

Wise, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Ausrüstung & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotojournalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: The Work Before the Work

Chapter 1: Finding Your Why

Chapter 2: Putting Your Why to Work

Part Two: Making the Work

Chapter 3: The Photographic Means of Expression

Chapter 4: Think Beyond the Camera

Chapter 5: Curating Multi-Image Presentations

Part Three: Making a Living

Chapter 6: Exploring Your Options

Chapter 7: Building Career Resilience

Chapter 8: Making Your Name

Chapter 9: Working for Yourself

Chapter 10: Working for Someone Else

Chapter 11: Planning for the Future

Appendix A: Mike's Teaching Philosophy

Appendix B: Mike’s Favorite Assignments

Appendix C: A Visual Vocabulary

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Davis has been helping photographers develop compelling visual narratives for several decades. He’s a Syracuse University Professor Emeritus, where he created and taught visual storytelling classes and directed The Alexia Grants. Work that students in his courses produced was widely recognized every year. Through a career as a visual leader he worked at National Geographic, The White House, five daily newspapers and as an independent visual editor, working with hundreds of photographers to develop projects and advance their skills. His and their work was widely recognized in many major competitions, grants, exhibitions, and festivals. He has edited more than 50 photo books.

Andrea Wise is a photo editor and creative producer with more than 15 years of experience across journalism, nonprofits, and tech, including National Geographic, Newsweek, ProPublica, and Meta. She was one of three core editors on ProPublica’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into abortion bans, for which she commissioned and edited the photo essay “The Year After a Denied Abortion,” winner of the RFK Book and Journalism Awards Grand Prize, among other honors. Andrea has juried Pictures of the Year, American Photography, and the Overseas Press Club Photo Awards. She also co-founded and grew Diversify Photo from an idea into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and global community of more than 2,000 underrepresented visual creatives.