AUGMENTED REALITY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v6.i5s.2025.6886Keywords:
Augmented Reality, Photographic Storytelling, Spatial Interaction, Visual Culture, Digital Art, Interactive Photography, Audience Perception, AI-Driven MediaAbstract [English]
AR has transformed the visual and experiential aspect of the photography story telling by uniting the definitions of both in one place, blending the static visuals with the interactive spatial based stories. AR turns the viewer into an active participant instead of the passive one, because of its capacity to extend photography into a multisensory, three-dimensional space, and is creating new avenues of meaning, feeling, and interaction. Embodied interaction, spatial computing, and visual composition merge to create AR-based photography as an art form of hybridity where action, perception, and interest come together to create the narrative. This amalgamation does not only add deeper aesthetic qualities but also the communicative power of photography by reaching out to the physical and virtual. Photography has long been a medium of remembrance and representation; AR is currently bringing it back to the reality as a medium of participation and presence. The paper follows this development in museum installations, interventions in the urban storytelling, and personal memory project demonstrates how spatial narratives will make art more democratic and create empathy and cultural continuity. The presented structure and analysis findings emphasize the role of AR in engagement, emotional appeal, and interpretive cognition that is backed by both quantitative analytic data and qualitative audience feedback. Although the technical calibration, data ethics, and cultural authenticity have been problematic, the emergent technologies based on AI adaptivity, WebAR platforms, and blockchain provenance have the potential to further streamline the field. Finally, AR photographic storytelling is a meeting of artistic vision and digital intelligence which makes photography living and responsive as a form of narration that builds a bridge between image, space, and human experience.
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