1. Research a photo-book. The book I’m choosing to study is “Help” by Daniel Butt. The story he’s trying to tell is about his experience with drugs and how it affected him. Most likely to raise awareness and show history with drugs and how differently it can influence people. He includes loads of different types of photographs, such as self portraits in black and white, and still life images in colour of pills.

2. Who is the photographer? the photographer is Daniel butt, a former student. i think he decided to make his book to raise awareness to the effects that drugs can have on a young individual and how they can change your life and make you a completely different person. he shows how using drugs affected him has a teenager and how he had to deal with stopping and the depression/ other mental illness’s he had to deal with from using them and relying on them. i think he wanted to reach everyone as the audience, as anyone can start consuming them and relying on them especially teenagers and he wanted to share his own experience. it can spread a message to other people who are dealing with the same situation or even someone whos never done drugs to show them the effects it can have.

3. Deconstruct the narrative, concept and design.

1. the book is consisted of a hard copy cover , mostly all black which creates a sad and dark atmosphere/mood about the book before you even open it which I think was done on intention.
2. Paper and ink:. He uses a mix of different papers and includes a letter in his book which creates a different texture however most of his pages are glossy. He uses both black and white images and colour this creates a nice contrast in his book when looking through it.
3. Format, size and orientation: His book includes a lot of self portraiture however a few images of objects such as pills are used too. His book is slightly bigger than a square format and his images are all different shapes and sizes which contrast with each other.
4. His book is a hard copy book, with an image wrap and its slightly smaller than an a4 sized book.
5. Cover: his front cover includes a letter press with a single word which makes you intrigued and the rest of the book is all black.
6. Title: relevant and intriguing title as it fits the mood of the book and makes you wan to know what its about.
7. Narrative: the story he’s trying to tell is about using drugs. he presented his own experience with how drugs affected him through this book and shows how they can affect you during your teenager years.
8. Structure and architecture: he develops his narrative through self portraits that show his emotions and they contrast with the images of colourful photos of pills meanwhile his images are black and white which shows how they affected him
9. Design and layout: most of his is images are on single page however some do include a double spread and he uses a letter in one of his pages.
10. Editing and sequencing: he includes a lot of juxtaposition of photographs as one page is a photo of him in black and white and the other page shows a colourful pill which contrast together, eventually as you look through on the final page there’s a letter saying he got prescribed on medication which shows how his journey with drugs ended.

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