1. Research a photo-book 

She made it to shine a light on the struggles that she faces. She wants to show things that are normally kept covered, hidden, but she wants them to be seen. Shows her vulnerabilities that she has. She takes self portraits, because she has a story to tell. emotion is carried by each image, and is displayed within each picture. They tell you about her, who she is and how she feels.

2. Who is the photographer? 

The photographer portrays the issues surrounding beauty, identity and body image, by creating these beautiful images, using natural light and strong compositions. The genre that Jen Davis uses is tableaux however they are to show her own life and invite the viewer into the past eleven years of her private life, exploring the vulnerabilities that she carries associated with a life-long struggle with my body, feelings of isolation, the battle to recognise beauty, a quest for intimacy, and sense of acceptance through the camera’s eye. Sometimes the images would be taken in real time and some would be staged, with the perfect lighting, posing and props.

3. Deconstruct the narrative, concept and design

• all images are in colour and are printed on the same type of paper.
• the format of the book is portrait, and is slightly off A4, and takes more of a shape of a square.
• the book has a hard cover. on the front cover there is an landscape image in the centre of the page, and on the back cover there is the title and the photographer the book was created by. the binding can be seen by the viewer and is covered by some blue tape.
• there is no special things on the front page, just a simple image on the front page
• the title hints to the subject matter. if you don’t know what the book is about the title will make no sense
• there are similar images throughout the book, containing a similar narrative. all the images contain jen davis and sometimes another person
• all images are a similar size and are all centered. some of the double page spreads contain two images. but there no grids or other things included in the photo book
• to me the images are in a random order but to the greater they may show a journey that she has made in learning who she is.
• the book contains 2 main bits of text, one half way through and one near the end. these pieces of text go into depth of jen davis’ progression throughout the time of her creating the photo book.