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Grandparents Quotes

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I have re-listened through my interviews with my grandparents and have extracted my favourite quotes from each topic heading. I plan to put these quotes into my photo book.

Faith 

Faith is a huge part of my life because my life is build around what I believe and I believe in God and i Believe that gods son died for me with unconditional Love.

Our christian faith has taught us to look beyond our self and look to see how we can help our family first and other people second.

Family 

I think family is extremely important to me. I try and do for my family, by going the extra mile. Sometimes when I am asked to help out, it can be extremely inconvenient but I always try to go that extra mile… or two.

Wales 

Living in Wales as a child, I was always surrounded by lots of aunts and uncles, so we were never short of baby sitters. Our town was a very close loving community in which we lived, and I sometimes think today that this is one of the things that we lack. We don’t have the time to look outside our door and see the needs of how we can help other people.

Jersey 

Ruth and I were engaged when I got appointed a role at St Marks primary school. We got married the following March 1964. We came to live in a flat in Jersey and despite changing flats and houses a few times we never anchored to move back to the mainland. All our children are Jersey born, which has an advantage and have all come back to live on the island. So who knows, perhaps  the Heaven household will be in Jersey for a while yet.

Music 

We have always been surrounded in music, I began piano lessons at the age of 7 and started to play the organ for our Sunday serves at the age of 15. Eventually when I moved to Jersey somebody asked me not to play the piano for them, but would I sing, and there began my “singing career”.

I enjoy listening to music, whereas my husband likes to perform. I think this is one of the good things about our marriage that we are both interested in music, in different ways and that a huge thing in our life. There is nothing more wonderful for me than to be in the kitchen working and your Grandpa to be playing the piano in the lounge.

Marriage 

I often think we were very young when we got married and if it was a daughter of mine I would say no don’t get married that young. But we were fortunate that we have stuck together for 51..52 years, so we have had a wonderful married life and we are really very fortunate.

Married; March 1964

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Personal Study Book Design

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One of the main books I have used as inspiration for my book design is Martin Usborne’s book ‘I’ve Lived In East London For 86 1/2 Years’. This photo book is about an old man who is living in East London and Martin Usborne, the photographer is photographing him in his everyday life.

I really like how each photo is presented alongside a couple of sentences which are Joseph’s words. These words show Joseph’s view on a topic. I think it makes the book have more character as you are able to read his thoughts and different views on modern life. 

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In my photo book, which has a similar concept to Martin Usborne’s book I will be taking extracts of my grandparents words. I will be taking these extracts from the interviews that I conducted with them a couple of months ago. The main headings/ topic heading will be; Music, Family, Jersey, Wales and Faith.

For the cover of my photo book, I am going to cover it with a patterned material, rather than a photograph.  An example of this is Julian Germain’s photo book ‘For Every Minuet You Are Angry You Loose Sixty Seconds Of Happiness’. This cover is very colorful and eye catching. The type of pattern gives an essence of what the theme of the book is going to be.

This photo book has presented its pictures with white boarders around the pictures rather than full bled. I do like the white space around the photographs as I think it gives the book a clean cut look. Germain has also included random plain white pages, which breaks the book up nicely.

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In this book, Germain presents some archive photos:

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Although it is effective I not like the style he has presented these photographs. I don’t like how he has scanned the whole photo album, however I do like the positioning of the archive photo’s in the book. Germain has positioned them all together, in the middle of the book.  I am still yet to decide how I would like to preset my archive photographs in my book. Either have them all together in a cluster, in the middle of the book.  Or have them spread evenly throughout the book.

I am choosing to title my photo book ‘The Heavens’ because I think it has a strong sound to it, and makes the book clear what is going to be about.

  • Square shaped book
  • white board around the photos
  • material front cover
  • extracted quotes alongside photos
  • random white blank pages
  • archive photographs in the middle of the book
  • title ‘The Heavens’