A Visual Journal

Journaling Exercises for Your Photographs

How you see or interpret any type of visual or written art are clues as to what’s most important to you and how you connect with the world. These 13 writing exercises from the popular online workshop, Once Upon a Time: Photographs have Stories to Tell, will help you to do just that. Get to the core of who you are and why you photograph what you do.

* Choose 10 or more of your most meaningful photographs to work with.

* Do the writing exercises as presented on your own timeframe. They’re playful and enlightening, engaging your curiosity and imagination.

* Discover themes and patterns in your work that might lead to potential projects.

* culminates in 5 core photographs and a personal statement. 

After you’re finished, you’ll have practices to continue working with your photographs. You’ll have greater confidence in creating and sharing your photographs and in articulating what they mean to you. You’ll be more self-aware as your thoughts, emotions and photographic voice become visible in the photographs you create.