The title ‘Within it All’ suits my zine narrative as it is about living amongst chaos. For the typography I have used ‘New Courier’, I chose it as it looks like type writer font, which would have been used by people at the time of the war to document daily life. My front cover features a bandage from the time of the occupation, it represents the start of the occupation and how a lot of damage was about to be caused.

This is my first double page spread and features a photo-montage. The first step was taking a photo of the Archive’s occupation diary, then I trimmed an image of the Radio Tower during the occupation and placed that layer on top of the diary. This montage emphasizes the importance of historic documents and stories. The Radio Tower symbolizes the diaries context coming to life and educating us on Jersey’s past, without writing these bunkers wouldn’t have a narrative. It fits into my narrative as signifies the start of the people of Jersey’s new story in life.

These pages are close ups of more objects from the Jersey Archive. The first is of a flash light used to guide people in the dark when they are making their way home before curfew hours commence. The second image is of a CD and cassette of music played by those who were occupied. These two photos displayed objects that made life easier for people to live. The light was an essential to everyone during the winter season, when is was dark and there were no street lights to guide them to the comfort of their homes. Music to this day is used for entertainment purposes, for me personally a good song puts me in a good mood, it was a way for people to enjoy themselves in times of such sadness. These two pictures represent a rebellion to the Nazi’s and how the people of Jersey wanted to prove that even though they are being oppressed, it isn’t going to stop them having a good time.

This image was taken from my Home Sweet Home shoot where I took pictures of my gran’s house. She was only a baby when the war ended so she didn’t experience the full hardship of war but nonetheless her parents still did. Her parents are both situated on the right hand side of the fire ledge, they represent the eyes of the war, these were the people who listened to music, used flashlights and wrote occupation diaries, they are the story tellers. I chose to use black and white to symbolize war photography and how colour hadn’t become popular or affordable. This image relates the narrative as it a shift in tone from reminiscing the past to actually being part of the past.

I used my gran’s kitchen as the interior is relatively out-dated compared to modern day minimalism. I don’t mean this in a bad way, my gran’s house has character and holds great memories of my childhood. The kitchen in my opinion is something out of an old black and white sitcom. The ancient micro-wave, the tiled walls and the neatly arranged spices. The pots and pans fit into the narrative as they emphasis the gender roles of the time at the start of the occupation. Women were seen as inferior, they were house wife’s destined for a life of cooking and cleaning, the men were the ones providing for the family.

This double page spread is of my gran’s fridge and fridge magnet collection of all the places she has visited in her life. This moves the narrative to times when females were sent to go and do the men’s jobs as they were busy at war. This was a significant time of gender equality, the magnets symbolize how women have their own lives now thanks to women who stood up for their rights. My gran still goes away, she has a social life but her mother would have had a very different life of staying indoors and looking after her and her sisters.

The lamp shade represents the idea of light at the end of the tunnel, the liberation is near, the men can soon come home. The large amount of family photos emphasize the importance of family during the occupation, how a strong family bond can make or break a person even today. When the men went away to war, they were missed, families dreaded receiving letters of death from the post-men. The box of tinkets are a metaphor for the people of Jersey and how they were locked away during the occupation, the Nazi’s held the key to everything, whether they could go for a walk, move house, buy food.

I used 3D triangular steel poles and miniature people as the objects, the background was created via yellow and green card. The poles symbolize the change the war has created in Jersey e.g bunkers. The miniature people represent the people of Jersey after the occupation and how they have to work around such change to everyday life on the island. This image relates most to the the title ‘within it all’ as the mini people are having it carry on as normal once they are liberated despite the mental distress they have encountered as well as the physical changes to the island.

I used the same bandage box as my back cover but from a different angle. The front cover image represented the damage the occupation was going to the cause, whereas this bandage suggests a different sort of damage. The bandage is now a symbol for liberation and now there is different damage to sort out. Plasters and bandages don’t always heal the area, sometimes it’s just a way of masking the pain and procrastinating about the problem. This relates to the liberation as people had gone through so much trauma yet they were given the news of liberation and were expected to return to normal.