The Title – “The Creation of a Home” 

For my photo book study, I have decided to name the project ‘The Creation of a Home’, as I believe it fully addresses the key hypothesis’s of my project. ‘The Creation’ part, succumbs the development and construction of our new family lives and how as people we fit in to a certain place with our belongings and emotions. I also wanted to distinguish the difference between a ‘house’ and a ‘home’ as a ‘house’ can be defined as ” a building for human habitation”. This definition describes little life and personality, ‘human habitation’ vaguely suppresses the way humans act and become desirable to an environment – how they make it there own. A ‘home’ however, can be defined as: “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household”, or “the family or social unit occupying a permanent residence”. This sense of permanence allows the reader to understand the commitment and time taken to make a ‘house’ a ‘home’, as there is much more to a house than just walls and foundations.

First Pages and Title Page 

For my beginning title pages, I have began trying to experiment with my archival material. As mentioned in my personal study,  Domingo, Costa and Dorley-Brown have all inspired me to incorporate archive material and mediums to create context and historical aspects, in order to relieve a sense of purpose and relationship with the reader. This beginning front cover allows the reader to get an idea, i like how the image I’ve chosen isn’t too clear, so the reader has time to picture what

Pages and Page Layout

I have started to explore the different formations and sequences my pictures can fit into, to make it more interesting and easy for the reader to understand. This is all in awe of the techniques used by the three artists I studied closely in my Personal Study: Rita Puig-Serra Costa (“Where Mimosa Bloom”), Inaki Domingo (“Ser Sangre”) and Chris Dorley-Brown (“The Longest Way Round”).

For some images (as seen above), I’ve used a double page spread so that the image is divided. I feel this technique is very effective, I really like the way it allows both pages to be covered but with the idea of there being a border there too, it lets the reader stand back and see the whole image without becoming too involved. This was in the style of Domingo as his piece “Ser Sangre” consists of multiple full page spreads.

I have also included drawings and more personal mediums as included in Domingo’s work “Ser Sangre” to make the feeling of ‘family’ more of a reality. I feel this effect allows

I have also used influence also from Chris Dorley-Brown’s: “The Longest Way Round” as his ongoing use of archival images of the War and Post War era are bounded together using his own photographs. During my internship at Jersey’s Photographic Archive, I came across similar styled images which show the history my new home.  Placing the images in a formation like a comparison on either side of the pages, I wanted to establish to the reader the themes of ‘old’, ‘new’, transgression and change.

What type of book am I going to be using? (size / material/ etc. )

Size – Small Portrait (23×16.5 cm)

Paper Type – Matte paper