Below are some photographs of my finished photo-book which I am presenting as a final outcome for this project. As I outlined in my plan the content focuses on my portraiture explorations featuring myself and my sister. I have also integrated reflective material to reflect the use of mirrors in my photographs. I bought some small mirrors both square and round in shape in reference to the two large mirrors used in my project. I also found some highly reflective card which I cut into shape to suit the size of the pictures. The effect of this is that when the viewer turns the pages they can see the photographs reflected on the opposite page and when it is fully open they can see their own reflection. On the first page I used a large cutting of the reflective card so the first thing the viewer sees is their own reflection in the book. I think the card works well because when bent it distorts the reflected appearance which reminds me of Duane Michals ‘Heisenberg’s magic mirror of uncertainty’. Originally I had planned to take inspiration from his use of handwritten notes and I was thinking about including lines of poetry to add a new element to the pictures. However I eventually decided against this because I wasn’t responding to any specific literary texts in my work and I struggled to find text that fitted in with the message I was aiming to portray. I also feel this would have had the risk of being too obvious and the focus might have been on the text rather than the images, so they would appear to be directly illustrating the written information. Instead I concentrated on using the reflections to add new layers of meaning. I also explored series of images to tell a story, partly inspired by the work of Michals.

I planned the structure for the book by laying out the prints and sequencing them in the order I was planning to present them in as well as considering how I would display them by placing the materials near them. For example,for some I chose to have black or mirrored backgrounds and I also used silver photo-corners for the larger images. I aimed to have a relatively even amount of black and white images split up equally by the colour ones. I also ensured that I separated the large mirror pages from the smaller ones. I think these small mirrors also work well because they only reveal a small fragment of the photograph which I find interesting. In the final pages of the book I chose to include two photographs of the mirror found in the Pitt Street buildings to reference what began my interest in exploring them for a photographic project.