A sentence: A story of peoples’ body art and what they mean to them through a documentary style.
A paragraph: I wish for my photobook to display and take viewers through a series of images showing my families’ and friends’ body art. Expressing what these pieces’ importance to to them. I will mix in some images without any explanation or further imagery to still give my photobook a sense if subjectivity, alike my artist I studied, Danny Alexander.
Design: Consider the following
How you want your book to look and feel: hard back
Paper and ink: My photobook will use a glossed paper as I feel that for my project, it will extenuate the quality of the images better. I don’t have any large bodies of text other then the essay so there will be no negative effect on the ability viewers have on the book. I also feel that having a glossy finishes on my photos will give them more of a professional feel.
Format, size and orientation: My photobook is 20*25 cm, in portrait orientation, which is just short of an A4 paper, however not all images will fill up the page as a bleed, some will take a smaller section of the page to break up the similarities throughout.
Binding and cover: as my book revolves around such a graphicly designed topic, I will over exaggeratedly edit one of my images and use it as a image wrap.
Title: inked
Design and layout: I want the layout to be basic and spread as the images themselves have a lot to say and project to the viewer.
Editing and sequencing: pair added materials of symbols with their tattoo representation.
Images and text: I will use quotes from the models as text in or on their photos.
