For this project I have decided that I want to create a photo book to bring all of my images together and to tell a story within the series of photographs that I am going to make. I have some ideas of different pages that I want to add into my photo book and think that they will be really effective when it comes to the final outcome. I already know what I want to do for the front and back page and also think that I want to change the first page attached to the cover to green to blend in with what I want to create as the front and back cover. I feel that I will be able to make this book in time and think that if I manage to do it right then I will be able to make a really great book that I am happy with. I am basing my project around nature and the environment that we as a society have re-moulded and manipulated to fit what suits us. My images are going to be very green and bright as I want them to be exciting and beautiful for my spectator to look at and to stand out to them more.

Front/back cover

For the front and back cover I want to spread one image across the entire thing. I will be using a hardcover as this is the best looking one. I don’t like this but it is the best wrap for the cover compared to ones that come off etc. I have decided that I want to make an images of a green woodland area that is really bright and captures any possible spectators attention. I want to make this image and then print it out. Then I will put both of my hands in red paint and print them onto both sides of the image. This represents what humans have done and continue to do to the natural world. As soon as I thought about this being a project I came up with this idea for the front and back cover as I think it could be really interesting and something unusual drawing in my spectator making them want to look at my photo book. The next pages in from the front cover will be the same/similar green to the green that’s on the front/back cover. The image below is the one that I have chosen to use for my cover and I haven’t edited it as I think this image looks much better natural as nature is beautiful on it’s own and doesn’t need any kind of filters. I am going to start experimenting with this and will see if it looks good with the hand print on top of it. I think that this will work out really well and I am excited to see what the outcome of this image is. After I have made this image I will start making my photo book to see how it looks and start bringing it all together from there.

Inside pages

Landscapes
For the inside pages I want to incorporate my Instagram and typical sunset images. I think that this could be a really interesting idea as usually Instagram photos are square adding a different style/layering to the images. I want to use two images of my favourite sunsets on one page with the page on the right being a couple of landscape images being ripped up and made into a new image. I think this could be really interesting. I want this ripped up image to represent the pollution in the air that is breaking up our atmosphere and changing it, polluting what we see and how we breathe. I really want to try this out as an experiment as I think it adds something more to my photo book giving the spectator more to look at and interpret. For this image I will be printing out different sunset images that I am going to make and just rip them up, I want to try and rip them in such a way where I can piece them back together, even though they will be different images. I really think that this could work out well and add something unique and different to my work.

Staged
I love making staged images, it’s one of my favourite methods of photography. I find it really interesting and think that this will really work out in my photo book adding more to it than just landscapes. For this aspect of my project I think that I will re-use or re-shoot images that I made previously for performance photography as I really liked how these images turned out and think that they could work really well with this project. I want to keep with the theme of rubbing out people’s bare flesh and just having their clothing on show. I want to do this as what I’m basically trying to say is that it doesn’t matter who’s in the photograph, what matters is what they are doing and what they are wearing. I think that this could be a really interesting way of looking at things and could raise questions in my spectators minds. Another idea that sprung to mind was when I saw one of Claude Cahun’s images down on a beach in Jersey, she is lying on the sand. I want to use this and recreate it in my own kind of way.

Abstract

I also want to create more abstract images. I have in mind ones that will be extreme close up shots of rubbish left on the streets of Jersey. I think that this will be a really interesting shoot to produce and to learn more about the society we live in and how careful or careless we really are. I think that I will make this into a photo collage on one page as I think that this will be the most interesting way to lay it all out. I want to show the broad spectrum and the vast amount of litter that is left lying around the streets of Jersey. I really hate when I see litter on the floor when there is a bin five steps away from the rubbish. I can’t understand why people think it’s ok to just leave things in a huge mess as if it will have no affect on the environment around them. For example, it could be extremely hazardous for animals trapping them or even suffocating them. I want these images to make people feel slightly sick or even ashamed and realise how they are treating our natural world. I think that this shoot will be fun to do as an experiment and to see how well it actually all works out.