Overview

Text

One of the main inspirations for my photobook is Sophie Calle’s Suite Venitienne, though the layout of the images in that book isn’t something that I wish to replicate or take inspiration from. The thing I will focus on is the text aspect. The text provides a very strong narrative additon to the photographs in the book. I have picked out an extract from a book by a famous philospher Jean Baudrillard, who was an influence in the early life of Sophie Calle as he helped her forge her degrees. 

The writing style differs from edition but is genuinely smaller and placed to the side on a seperate page, the writing tends to be small but still effective. Though I wish to experiment with different styles and sizes. I will also experiment with font types and their placement; taking incpiration but not fully copying the work of Sophie Calle.

Pictures

The overall concept for the layout of my image is to group them; displaying multiple images on a page – in a grid formation or landscape orientation. The images will be of the same set; creating a visual narrative to go with the text. In some instances, I want the grids of images to fill up a double spread. In others, I would like a single image to fill up a whole single page or a full double spread ; creating diverse yet a clean and repetitive layout.

 

Process

The first part of the process involved using Bookwright an app by Blurbused to create and export photobooks.

I want the pages in the book to be dark; not quite black thogh to contrast the images and make the greys and undertones stand out more. I did this by going into ‘Page Colour’ and then selecting more colours – using the slider to pick out the exact shade I had in mind.

The next part involved creating an title page, I had to chose a font that I wanted to keep all throughout the book – I settled for Century Schoolbook, white in colour to contrast the background.

The first spread, I wanted to start with a full image, pairing it with the first line from the extract. Keeping it simple yet effective.

I mirrored the first spread, flipping the image and text on each side.

A doubl spread filled with images, showing progression and without text.

This was the last image of this set; involving this specific subject. I used the last image as a full single page.

The images are displayed in a set of 4, if displayed horizontally they would lose the effect; hence the square layout. Acoompanied by text in the top left.

Another double spread; the images are slowly building up to overwhelm the viewer.

Introduction of colour to differentiate between the subjects.

More images followed by text and empty space; creating a break from the surge of images.

Double spread – image creates break from smaller ones and from text.

Another set of 4, this time with colour – breaking the absence of it throughout the book.

Last spread; a little text and empty space. A clear end,putting an end to all images and text