Powerful images send emotional messages – even when no words are expressed. Humans carry the unique capability to share and demonstrate emotions, so capturing striking emotions through photography always has a tendency to strongly draw an audience in. If you are a photographer interested in taking emotional or emotive photographs, whether for your own use or as part of a design for posters, booklet printing, or a website, the following collection may help provide you with some ideas. These photos include images that capture a broad range of emotions from anger to fear to pain and joy.
What are the elements of each shot that make it so powerful? Is it the subject or the surroundings? How does the color treatment of the photo help or hurt the effect? What emotion do you believe the photographer is attempting to convey? Do you think that these emotions are strongly dependent upon culture? These questions and others are important to ask yourself as you study these images.
Levi by Jeremy Cowart
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Regret by Mohsen Daemi
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Broken by Roby Bon
Bird’s Story by Jess Ika
n.e. by Aria Baro
Facing fear by Ben Spurgeon
Monsters by Rudolf Brosztl
Vas by Kandaeva Anastasiia
the long awaited big encounter by Lirca Lucian
Seclusion by Yulia Cosmos
As short as a kiss by Roby Bon
Joey by Beth Armsheimer
The secret life of children by Amanda Lucier
Shelter by Abir Abdullah
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Riot in the city by Son Nguyen
Memorial by Susan Meiselas
Prisoner by Mein Klown
Sorrow by Mein Klown
Representation of heartache by Carlina
Emotive 001 by Cheyenne Ralphs
Loneliness by Oliver Kuka
Emotive portrait of the girl 2 by Albert-Smirnov
Crime Scene – The Hanging by Lara Jade
Window by Andrei Nica
Mia by Lara Jade
Rough Hands by Lara Jade
David Duchovny by Jason Bell
Rhys Ifans by John Rankin Waddell
Dreamer by Inga Ivanova
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Tara Hornor
Tara Hornor has a degree in English and has found her niche writing about marketing, advertising, branding, graphic design, and desktop publishing. She writes for PrintPlace.com, an online printing company that offers brochure printing services, business cards, flyer printing services, posters, postcards, booklet printing services, and more printed marketing media. In addition to her writing career, Tara also enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.