I decided to design my book using the software Blurb, this was because it presented me with a huge variety of different template in which I could easily layout my images in. When designing the book I made sure to constantly refer back to my photography book reference, Jessica Backhaus, A Trilogy. This gave me a huge inspiration for my page layouts where I tried to utilise the negative space which surrounded the images effectively, using a matte colour to fill it in instead. Overall the book led me to use my four main shoots which focused on the development of consumerism. Using the three topics of producing, consuming and waste as my main influence throughout, narrowing down my original thousand strong image selection down to about fifty. Here is my current composition for the book:

What I really wanted to put across from my layout of the book was a narrative, this would allow for me to tell a political storey through the narration of various images divided into separate categories  that could be analysed and viewed in relation to the rest of images in that topic. To begin with I experimented with about six individual pages layouts, presenting a broader way in which I could compose the photos taken, such as full page spreads, double-page spreads and boxed in imagery. I wanted to leave a few spaces that I would be able to place text in such as my essay and titles for pages and photos.

Some of the issues I am having though consist of the images losing quality as they are enhanced, leading me to have to consider alternative design layouts for their pages. Another issue is the flow of the book which I am struggling to order images in order of relevance to the pages before them, as I want to tell a narrative which is becoming harder to do as I progress through the book. My final issue is the composition of information pages, as I didn’t want the writing to overpower the pictures on the same page and had to re-design blank areas multiple times in order to come to some sort of satisfactory result.