Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words – Divorce, Separation, childhood
• A sentence – Witnessing my parents lives after their divorce and comparing it to when I was a child.
• A paragraph – This book is about my parents and their lives after their divorce. My mum has re-married and lives in the UK now, whereas my dad still lives in Jersey with me. For me, I found the divorce and my mum moving away very hard, so I decided for this project to capture my parents lives and tell and honest truth about what a separated family is like. I also want to include own images of my childhood to show the juxtaposing lives of both my parents and the past and present.

Design: Consider the following

• How you want your book to look and feel – I want my book to feel like a photo album. I want it to be plain black and simple.
• Paper and ink – Id like the paper to be matte so the glossy images i take out of the photo albums will contrast it.
• Format, size and orientation – Just a standard portrait sized book.
• Binding and cover – hard cover, plain black.
• Title – 7916 – parents marriage and divorce dates
• Structure and architecture – just like a normal photobook but I want to insert images out of family photo albums as I feel like this will give the book an interesting tactile feel.
• Design and layout – images of my mum will be on the left and the right way up, but then images of my dad will be upside down. This is a way to show their split and also made the reader engage with the book as to view the images of my dad they’ll have to turn the book upside down.
• Editing and sequencing – I’m going to put any images I take into black and white but leave the archive images untouched.
• Images and text – I want the images to be candid and of my parents daily lives, almost as a documentary. I feel that if my images are staged it would take the meaning away. no text.