Photo-book Chosen – The Epilogue by Laia Abril

What the story is about?

For me I think that the story portrays a family struggles and how they deal with losing a love one to a disease.

What the photographer made it for?

The photographer made this book to focus on the indirect realities that are based around feminism, therefore tells the story of how a family loses their daughter to bulimia.

Audience?

Girls – Woman- families

• Book in hand: how does it feel? Smell, sniff the paper.

When I looked at the book

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

The photo book uses a Matt paper however uses inserts with normal printing paper with either letters, and official documents.

• Format, size and orientation: portraiture/ landscape/ square/ A5, A4, A3 / number of pages.

Portrait

• Binding, soft/hard cover. image wrap/dust jacket. saddle stitch/swiss binding/ Japanese stab-binding/ leperello

Hard cover with a image wrap, glued stitching for binding.

• Cover: linen/ card. graphic/ printed image. embossed/ debossed. letterpress/ silkscreen/hot-stamping.

Has got a printed image on the cover, with a blue card covering the girls face

• Title: literal or poetic / relevant or intriguing.

The title can be found to be intriguing to the audience as it doesn’t give us an explanation into whats in the book

• Narrative: what is the story/ subject-matter. How is it told?

The story is about a family who lost their daughter to bulimia, the book includes flashback before the event – testimonies – objects – letters

• Structure and architecture: how design/ repeating motifs/ or specific features develops a concept or construct a narrative.

The structure of this book allows the reader to understand what is going on, the book is split in mini chapter specified by the date on a single page.

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

This photo book uses a lot of double page spreads, however in some pages uses tipin to add more information that the reader can read or look at

• Editing and sequencing: selection of images/ juxtaposition of photographs/ editing process.

• Images and text: are they linked? Introduction/ essay/ statement by artists or others.  Use of captions (if any.)

The are a mixture of this used in the photo book, all the text in this book relates to the image beside, this could be done by the photographer explaining what is happening in image, which gives more context to the reader.