Resources on Conveying Emotion
- The Science of Facial Expressions And How It Can Improve Your Photography
- Emotions and Moods but … No Faces Allowed! (describes a “challenge” to create an image that conveys emotion without showing faces)
- The Ultimate Guide to Body Language (focuses on how to “encode” and “decode” emotions conveyed through body language in face to face settings, but could also be applied to images)
Telling Stories through Images
- Telling Stories with Photos
- Stories Through Sequence: Ideas for creating visual narratives through multiple images
- Narrative Image: The How and Why of Visual Storytelling
- Eye on Image-Making: Seven Storytelling Basics
- Adding Emotion and Feeling to Photographs
- Elements of Photography and Visual Storytelling, by an NPR multimedia trainer
Sample Photos
- Beautiful Black and White Photographs That Convey Emotions
- 40 Captivating Photos That Depict Human Emotion (some of these are a bit too “obvious,” when subtlety might’ve been more compelling, but you can learn to see the difference by comparing these photos)