Photobook idea 1 :

In this draft I focused on only including the black and white portrait images of my family members without including any of my landscape images as I would like my book to relate to my essay as much as possible. In some of the blank spaces, I have some Polaroids of family members and important objects to me prepared to be stuck in on some of these blank spaces to fill up the pages. I’ve decided to for the title of ‘Home is where the family is’ for this book draft as it is focusing specifically on my family members.

2nd idea :

For my second idea i’ve kept it similar to the first with keeping only portraits bases off of the photographers Walker Evans and Latoya Ruby Frazier but I rearranged the images. I started with a group image which includes multiple people but seems to only focus on my uncle to introduce my family. It then goes onto my brothers, and in the blank space next to my brothers there will be a Polaroid stuck in to go with the image. In page 6 my father is introduced into the book and the page next to his image will be kept blank. The next two pages that are left blank for a Polaroid to be placed. Towards the end of the book i’ve circled back around and included images of the family members who I included in the beginning of the book.

3rd idea :

For this draft I will be playing around with the different types of layouts that Lightroom offers and will be adding some landscape images to brighten up the book. I aimed on pairing each of the places with certain people depending on how they relate to that area. For example the first place image is of the River Thames and you can faintly see London in the background, in the image on the next page is of my uncle who was originally born in London and therefore has a personal relationship with that area. On some of the blank pages I plan to stick in some Polaroids I took in preparation for the photo book. I also changed the colour of the front book and the colour of the font.