Link to my photobook Inside Out

My body image project is about capturing a physical representation of hidden emotions. My book “Inside Out” includes images of subjects posing in a certain way that represents a specific emotion such as pain or happiness. The title Inside Out, concludes what the series is about in a very simple way.

The book contains images where I’ve focused on particular body parts, such as the face or the hands. I’ve captured them in a creative way where the shapes and movement that they create represent certain emotions. The book contains a certain aesthetic that flows throughout. It has a very contemporary feel because of the way of using the human body and also the use of the bright colours and abstract visions. The book contains a variation of sizes of images, ranging from half page images to full page spreads. I decided to use a portrait orientation for the book because it was the best way to  display my images. Although I didn’t want to categories my images into different sections of the book, I also didn’t want a completely random structure and sequencing. I therefore displayed images together that linked in some way, to do with colour or subject.

The book contains a variation of colour and black and white images because I wanted a contrast within the sequencing and flow. I decided to choose the bath images to be in black and white because it looked better this way with the body images submerging through the water. I also liked the way the contrast of tones were brought out a lot more when in black and white.

When choosing the multi spread pages I choose images with a lot of detail so that the viewer had a lot of interest and something to think about when looking through the book. I really like this particular image below as a multi page spread because of the position of the subject and the way she is looking straight at the camera. The colour of the image also links very well with my theme and aesthetic.

Throughout the book I also included sections of a poem about particular parts of the body placed next to the particular body part that it talks about. For these pages I wanted the colours to match, or be very similar because I wanted to stick to my colour theme and aesthetic as much as possible. I am very happy with how my photo book turned out because  it flows very well and I have managed to create an overall feel and theme that links with my main idea, which is physically showing hidden emotions.

Here are the layouts of my final pieces from my body project, which the main aim was to represent hidden emotions in a physical way.  There are three separate displays that I wanted to create. Each of them containing a different theme.

The first presentation that I came up with was the one for the hand series. The shoot was based on the concept of movement and the use of the hands to express emotion. I choose the best image from the shoot to display as a set of three. I experimented with different layouts to display and decided to use a white mount board to display the images. I liked the layout with the A3 being positioned in the center and the A4’s either side. I choose this layout because I liked the flow of the contrasting colours and the way the hands emerged  into the images.

For my second group of images I choose to focus on the face as the primary part of the body. I choose my best final images from the white face shoot to display as a set of three. I choose images that were contrasting in terms of position and colour and angle because I don’t want the images to be to similar because I wanted to grab the viewers attention. I tried many different ways to display the image but I ended up with the version below because it showed the images the best as a group. The layout is clean and simple which I really like.

For my last presentation I looked at contrasting ways of displaying them to see which layout would suit it the best. I looked at two different examples to compare which one I liked the best. The first layout I came up with was a diagonal one where the two images of similar theme and of the same size were presented opposite each other. This was a very interesting way of presenting the images which I really liked because of the unusual shapes and angles that the images were viewed at.

However I decided to choose my final layout of this set of images because it looked more professional and simple. I wanted a simple and clean layout because it looked more pleasing to the viewer and was easier to view the images as a set displayed like this. I really like the contrast of the different tones and colours. The theme of this set of images came from the idea of submerging, and also from the subject of skin. The ripples and shapes in the sand replicate the structure of skin which links to the images of the subject laying in water. I love the comparison between the black and white and the colour because the contrast makes a much more interesting and powerful display.