To begin with, I think the zine as a whole was a success and I am happy with the way it turned out. The narrative of a group of friends going out and enjoying their youth/adolescence together worked well with the mainly-candid nature of my images, and the black and white added a more classic and timeless aspect to the whole thing, making the narrative more lasting and ageless. The narrative itself wasn’t planned to be particularly structured or distinct, rather it’s fairly ambiguous and left up to whoever is reading the zine to decide exactly how they interpret the series of images, within the theme of a love story of friendship and youth.

I am pleased with the way the handwritten element added some character and originality to the zine and in my opinion made it feel more personal and intimate. I am also satisfied with the photographs themselves: I think I selected the right ones, I like their compositions and general visual qualities, I think they all worked out very well in the switch from colour to black and white, they all could do well as individual images if they weren’t part of a zine, and most of all I think they work nicely when conveying my narrative.

If I were to re-do this project, I might try and incorporate more portrait images, as many of them are landscape, as well as possibly include more of the handwritten components. I could think about doing the project in colour instead of black and white and think about what sort of effect that would have on the “look” as a whole, or possibly even just do another photoshoot and add more images to make a longer zine. Many of the images were candid and unplanned, so I wonder what sort of outcome adding more posed photos would have, whether that would help to create a more structured and clear narrative. They were also mainly taken outside or in public settings, so possibly doing some in a photo studio or inside someone’s house would have a different effect as well.