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

The book itself feels light, the front covers smooth and glossy, coloured a pale pink with white letters saying ‘ All My Love’.

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

All of the images are placed or printed onto smooth white glossy pages. Most of the images have been printed into the pages directly using printer ink, apart from a few images which have been printed separately and stuck in on top of the pages. The images use a mix of colours and black and white tones,

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

The book is presented in a portrait orientation, and seems to be bigger than an A5 but just smaller than an A4. It contains 45 sheets of paper, giving us 90 pages in total.

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

The cover is a soft cover with pale pink glossy paper. It doesn’t contain an image wrap, leaving the book bare. The binding within the book has been hidden from the viewer.

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

For the cover of the book it uses glossy card to encase the book. It doesn’t contain any images on the front, it is just a blank pale pink with three small white letters printed near the bottom.

• Title: literal or poetic / relevant or intriguing.

The book contains poetic images which tell the tale of his parent’s divorce. He uses images of every day objects or people within his family which reminds him of his parents and their divorce. For example, he includes an image of a dandelion being blown away. This could symbolise his parents divorce and how marriage can be shattered with something as gentle as a soft blow, and that it leaves shards of their previous life behind.

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

The book is about his parent’s divorce. He starts with an image of what looks like a page out of a children’s story book, showing a couple sitting by a window for dinner and a paragraph down the side

‘ In a world of rush , and crush and crowds, it all comes down to this, a tender word, a gentle touch, a smile, a look, a kiss…’

By including this as the first page of his photobook he starts of with a symbolic image, one which was meant to reference to the relationship his parents once had when they were married.

Throughout the rest of the book he tells the story of his parents divorce and how he dealt with being split between his two loved ones. He often included images of other people, himself and objects which he saw as important and nostalgic.

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

He placed his images in many places among the pages. He included full-bleed on double and single pages, had some smaller images spread in many places, in the corners or the middle of the pages. Despite how random the placing might seem it does also seem to be well thought out.