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# Your Storytelling Brain
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/your-storytelling-brain/
- Published: 2015-01-13T16:31:13.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-13T16:31:13.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: photography, storytelling

> Cognitive science has long recognized narrative as a basic organizing principle of memory.

This is perhaps the best way to think about storytelling in photography. It’s not about platform. It’s not about techniques. It’s about allowing the brain to do what it does naturally and not getting in its way.