3 words: identity, belonging, separation.

A sentence: It’s about my inner conflict towards my role in the family after my parents divorce.

A paragraph: My photobook explores my emotions during a time of change, in which I felt everyone was going forward but I was stuck in the present, when everything was how I liked it. Through surrealistic and documentary photography it express a period in my life that was confusing, yet also exciting, new people, new places, a whole new life.

How you want your book to look and feel: I want my book to look minimal and feel smooth on the outside but on the inside it will feel chaotic.

Format, size and orientation: It will be a landscape book, A5 or A4.

Binding and cover: The cover will be hard and glossy with standard binding.

Title: ‘Life In A River.’ The idea behind my title is from the saying ‘you cannot step in the same river twice’. This connects with my book in the sense that I can never go back to before the divorce, before I moved house, life is constantly changing, it’s whether you let the river swallow you or you swim with it.

Design and layout: None of the images will cover a full page, I want it to feel like a scrap book/ family photo album that appears messy yet, the story is meaningful. I want there to be a lot of negative space surrounding the photos to symbolize isolation.

Editing and sequencing: I will start with a few documentary photos from a decade ago then move onto some surrealists images. Throughout there will be a mixture of documentary and surrealist to create a sense of uncertainty and confusion.

Images and text: My text will be on opposite page to the picture and will be quotes from my interviews of just sayings or sentence I think are significant to the image. The text will be small and black with a simplistic font because words aren’t as important as actions.