What Kind of Stories do you Tell with your Photographs?

In the visual journaling workshop, Once Upon a Time: Your Photographs have Stories to Tell, there is an exercise on storytelling, which participants really enjoy. The results are often surprising and reveal hidden writing talents. We take a look at three different types of stories – ambiguous, personal, and documentary (inspired by this article, Telling Stories with Photos, from Digital Photography School). The three types are summarized below.

Ambiguous – the story is unclear; it makes you...