change is inevitable

The physical dynamics of my photobook

I will be handmaking my own photobook, including the printing, editing, binding, text, and the overall assembly of the book.

For the book cover, I am using the shell of an old diary I kept a few years ago, which is sentimental and relevant to the topic of my book. Its roughly the size of an A6 sheet of paper, maybe slightly bigger as it has to house the A6 contents. Its also a hardback, with a textured red covering similar to a snakes skin.

Im planning to use my old dymo label maker, which used to be my moms when she was young, to create the title on the front of the book. I’m also planning to incorporate a simple photograph right in the middle aswell, creating a minimalistic but bold demeanour.

Both the front page and the back pages of the book will be thin, lightweight tracing paper to give the book an unclear, surreal opening and closing. Between each signet, which will only be 1 folded a5 page, I’ll bind in the smaller sheets of paper with the handwriting. I’m hoping that using a variety of differences sizes and types of paper will give the book less fluidity and structure, as I’m not showing my photographs in a linear order.