Abstract

Purpose and Introduction: This study seeks to emphasize the critical aspects represented by photography techniques and their dramatic elements, so generating a sense of movement and structure within the narrative text, either through evocative imagery or by establishing a framework defined by narrative discourse. It seeks to emphasize the degree of the sender's engagement with the elements of the photograph and its narrative conventions, while also crafting a dramatic event by illustrating the atmosphere surrounding the novel's principal characters, integrated with written text. It seeks to discern specific aspects of the narrative text, including the proximity and distance of objects at the frame's corners, the representation of horizon lines in mountainous and desert landscapes, and the inclusion and approximation of elements to convey spatial depth in the images. Visual arts encompass the creation of significant artistic works for the audience. Critics and experts in each discipline thereafter assess them according to their operational efficacy and the significant notions they provide to the recipient. They employ visual language that evokes ideas, symbols, and occasionally intricate, profound meanings, aiming to immortalize certain historical events, as well as literary, social, political, and related issues. A solitary artwork might convey a subject challenging to elucidate through written or verbal communication. This illustrates the artist's adept understanding of visual techniques that align with the viewer's perception. The primary visual arts associated with narrative literature include painting, theater, cinema, and particularly, photography. Photographs are regarded as a crucial component of contemporary visual language, as artists utilize them to express emotions and convey information as indicators. These images can significantly unite diverse individuals and communities, as they embody a universally recognized visual language across all segments of human society. The creation of images is vital for the precise preservation of human civilizations. We assert that images occupy a distinguished status in contemporary society, having evolved alongside technological advancements throughout the nineteenth century. Consequently, they serve several functions: as documentation, artistic expressions, visual communication, or to convey psychological conditions. The backdrop of images reflects humanity's endeavor to document scientific pursuits and social realities. In this instance, the artist may supplant the narrator who recounts the story through visual representation.
Methodology: This study investigated diverse photographing approaches and styles through a descriptive-analytical and interactive methodology. It elucidated the interplay between narrative text and photographic imagery, demonstrating how the sender conveys concepts derived from the fundamental structural components of the narrative to the recipient.
Findings: Zahran Al-Qasimi's novel "Honey Hunger" exemplifies various photographic principles, as the narrator personifies the themes of photography through its capacity to engage with events, particularly in Omani communities. Al-Qasimi utilizes photography techniques to illustrate social and domestic life in select Omani communities, concentrating on the endeavors of three beekeepers in a hilly setting and their quests for mountain honey. He also illustrates the lifestyle in regions such as the plains, valleys, desert, and mountain slopes, particularly the peripheries of the White Mountain and the Halwa Mountains. He epitomizes Omani culture, especially on various events, reflected in celebrations, attire, cuisine, accent, music, and religious practices.
Discussion and Conclusion: The photograph offers an extensive perspective on the subject, reflecting the photographer's intentions and the selection and arrangement of certain elements within the composition. This illustrates the visual image's capacity to connect the individual and collective identities. An individual image can encompass various societal issues through its dissemination over social media, newspapers, journals, and literature. As a visual language, it merges visual discourse with verbal discourse to enhance the dominant concept. The recipient cannot interpret visual discourse without engaging with linguistic discourse and written language to uncover its multifaceted aspects, including social, political, economic, psychological, advisory, semiotic, and particularly literary dimensions, as these are intrinsically linked to the visual image and tangible reality. Consequently, the relationship between the narrative imbued with visual techniques and visual discourse, particularly the photographic image, is reciprocal. Thus, film critics frequently analyze shots from a film based on the adapted narrative text prior to its conversion into a film strip. A significant finding of the research is that employing these techniques enhances the image and enables it to communicate a unified concept across all images, thereby generating a psychological significance derived from images possessing photographic characteristics in accordance with the established norms of this domain. In certain paragraphs, the narrator utilizes various visual imagery aspects to enhance the underlying meaning given to the audience. Large blocks manifest in the image, dominating a significant portion of the frame. By documenting certain narrative occurrences in alignment with the principles of imagery, the narrator can illustrate the characteristics of visual language. Certain photographs in this novel function as a visual narrative to chronicle overlooked events, elucidating the precise distances between objects within the frame, particularly concerning the natural elements referenced in the text in relation to the horizontal axis, or highlighting the distinct components in the image's foreground. This strategy enables the sender to emphasize the significance of the provided element. Furthermore, given the principle of the viewer's perspective, the narrator might personify the expansion of visual limits. This guideline instills in the recipient a sense of involvement and observation in the event. From this perspective, the research diverges into other axes that converge along this trajectory, including the principle of the horizon, the foreground, the observer's gaze, recurring patterns, and spatial depth.