What my photobook is about?

My photobook doesn’t have a narrative structure of a story or progression throughout it, instead I am creating my photobook to display different images regarding the theme of still life and with a primary focus of shadows and reflections. I liked the idea of this as many of my photos flow and work well with one another but do not hold a story value towards them, I also want to show an experimentation of colour and black and white throughout my photobook as the use of different colours can bring some of the different page spreads to life but the use of black and white also brings a sense of structure and uniformity towards the images and structuring of the photobook as well.

Describe in –

3 words: Colour, uniformity, shadows/reflections.
A sentence: The uniformity of still life images through the use of black and white and colours is represented through the use of different shadows and reflections.
A paragraph: The topic of still life photography can be described and explored in a variety of different ways, this can be due to the different objects and colours used throughout which create a sense of unity and structure throughout.

Design –

How you want your book to look and feel with the paper and ink: Softcover, simply organised, using black for different texts on black and white spreads then matching colours for coloured spreads (if text is included).
Format, size and orientation: A4, not too thick, able to be carried around.
Binding and cover: I want the cover to be of a coloured/image in black and white which I have taken previously and have a border around it with a title underneath.
Title: The shadowed reflection, Reflections of a shadow, etc.
Design and layout: Double/single page spreads, triptychs, diptychs, use of different page layouts which are repeated throughout the book.

Mood board of ideas for my photobook –

Here is my mood board which I have created in relatio9n to different ideas for my photobook, it combines images of spreads which I had looked at previously in my photobook references of the Vagus magazine and ‘Breakfast’, this is because the layouts were simple which I thought worked well with my subject of still life and shadows/reflections as there is already a lot of different abstraction going on in my images so if I had used a lot of different page layouts it wouldn’t give the simplistic effect which I wanted.