Book in hand: How does it feel?

The book’s cover and sleeve are created from card giving it a textures surface which feels dry to the touch, however the book itself is a more matte card surface giving it a smoother feel whilst adding a slight tint to the cover. This card texture is carried on throughout the layout of the book. The textured surface of the sleeve and book covers are repeated on each book.

Paper and ink: Use of different paper/textures/colour or B&W or both.

All of the paper inside the book are glossy matte textured being about the same thickness of ordinary photography paper. Within the book there are a few blank pages so that it adds breathing space when working your way through which adds to the overall effect of the photographers decisions. The only text is the ink which is in a small font in each corner of the pages to highlight what the title of each image is. The book overall is very consistent as there is a strong theme regarding composition and focus of the photographer throughout.

Format, size and orientation. Portraiture/landscape/square/A5, A4, A3/ number of pages.

The book itself it is a A3 size, slightly smaller than an A4 sheet of paper with an effective use of negative space throughout due to there being borders to each image boxing them in a result. This compliments his photography as the photos become easier to focus on especially as there are more dominant portraits within. Its hard to say how many pages there are due to there being no page numbers, but I would guess there are about 50 pages per book.

Binding, soft/hard cover. Image wrap/dust jacket. Saddle stitch/swiss binding/Japanese stab-binding/leperello.

The books use a paper card cover without any dust cover on due to there being no need through the use of sleeves. This as a result makes the book more visually pleasing as when opening it it directly links the cover page into the photography.

Title: Literal or poetic/relevant or intriguing?

Overall the titles seem to be more poetic rather than literal due to how the content inside each hardly reflects what the title suggests, instead being more around a different theme of family or location life in specific locations.

Narrative: What is the story/subject matter: How is it told?

There seems to be no narrative in the books but rather small sub sections where a few page spreads will be portraits with the next ones maybe be landscape shots or images about home life. This theme continues throughout the three individual books.

Design and layout: Image size on pages/single page, double-spread/images/grid, fold-outs/inserts:

Each photo inside the book tends to be the same size regarding whether it is landscape or portrait, with portraits tending to take up the entire page and the landscapes taking up about half of a page.

Editing and sequencing: Selection of images/juxtaposition of photographs/ editing process:

The images inside each book seem to have little editing done to them as each seems like they have come straight from the camera with in-camera editing techniques like low or high exposures. As a result of this the results seem to be more literal, portraying the photographers vision literally.

Images and text: Are they Linked? Introduction/essay/statement by artists or others. Use of captions (If any).

The books lack text as there are no page numbers or information about where the photographs are taken. However in each bottom corner of every page there are the titles of the photos present on each spread, this is complimented by the very occasional use of speech dialogue which can be seen on some pages which seem to depict a conversation between two random people.