Photography with a really good narrative element is something that gets me very excited. I've recently been more open to fashion for this very reason. I find an image that poses questions is much more interesting than one where the intent is obvious.
If it was up to me, I would just post the entire works of Los Angeles photographer Alex Prager. Her use of narrative in fashion is stellar to say the least. As a person who is heavily inspired by cinema, her work excites me like nothing else I've see to date. A photographer like Gregory Crewdson definitely has a cinematographic quality to his work, but I find the huge scale of the production behind it a bit of a turn off. He is more of a single frame film director. Prager, on the other hand, works on a much smaller scale but achieves similar results. Taking ideas from old films such as "Valley of the Dolls"and Hitchcock's "The Birds', Prager illustrates scenes that leave the viewer asking questions.
NARRATIVE EXAMPLES
She recently crossed from still frames to film in her short film "Despair"
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