3 Words: Generations, Legacy, Family

Sentence: A book about the relationship between myself and my grandfather, inspired by the physical resemblance between myself and my Grandfather

Paragraph: Throughout my life, Whenever my family have looked at personal family photographs of my Grandfather as a young man, My family have constantly remarked upon the strong resemblance between myself and my grandfather and this is the inspiration behind this photo book, exploring my grandfathers young life and recreating original images myself whilst depicting this resemblance.

Book Design

I would like to produce a hardback saddle stitch bound book on semi gloss paper. Ideally I would like my book to be a square, roughly 30x30cm with a portrait orientation of images set as squares in the centre of the page with a white border. I would like to incorporate written text by my grandfather and myself and include these alongside the photographs and photographed objects throughout my project. I would have an image of my grandfather on the front cover and the same image replicated by myself on the rear cover of the book. I would like a simple title which I am still considering in terms of what to name the book. I would incorporate a full bleed image on the middle page of a landscape and I will either have one half of the book as photographs of my grandfather, and the other half will consist of images of myself recreating the photographs myself.