For my zine, I feel that my photographs from St Malo suit a more old fashioned style of photography, due to the timeless, old-fashioned architecture present throughout the town. I also think this style helps imitate the work of Cartier-Bresson, who was the main inspiration for this trip, which, especially with my images of the old buildings, is prevalent as in influence in my work there.

Cartier-Bresson’s work is carefully constructed using leading lines and different focal points to easily guide a viewer’s eyes across his images, such as in this photograph, one of his most iconic pieces, the darkest tones – the handrails at the top of the stairs- smoothly bring your attention to the blur of a cyclist passing through the scene. Cartier-Bresson’s use of strong geometric shapes in this image in particular build onto the composition, the sharpest, most rigid shapes dominating the foreground.

I’ve also spent time looking through various zines both online and in the classroom, each with their own unique styles and formats, and I plan on utilising the page fully for my images, completely filling each page and using other images at lower opacities as a background for some writing on a few pages. I’m interested in a minimalistic approach to my zine, which I hope to explore in this task. The title that I’ve come up with for my zine is going to be ‘malo.’, which I believe suits the minimalistic style that I want to aim for in my zine.

For my zine I am using all monochrome images as this suits the urban style I was aiming for to show the more grungy side of the city that often gets overlooked by the traditional buildings and pretty beaches.

Mood board:

This is a mood board of zine’s that I am inspired by and that look similar to how I want my zine to

I selected a variety of images, some landscape and some portrait and then positioned them over the 16 pages.

My Zine is going to involve my 11 best images I had taken in St.Malo, which I’ve edited to create a more vintage look, which includes good contrast and shapes with what’s in the image.

Iv taken slight inspiration of the images presented to us by the last year 13’s who created their own, and even ones Mr.Toft had bought in for us to see.

Zines are quite easy to create and to do, people say there are no rules to creating a zine so in my opinion the most eye catching one will be the best. Which is why I want to have a homeless man’s spot with a dog on a chain, to catch eyes but also its a dog.

For the concept of my zine I want to build it off of the limited 11 images that I want to use and create a timeline from them, with maybe a little story which could be interpreted in any way. For example: it would start out with the most recent image I had taken at St.Malo after getting off of the boat:

which would be this image, as it shows how active St.Malo is for locals and tourism, and it would progress from there.

My “Narrative” would be more up to interpretation of the images that people see with some captions suggesting what they are looking at in the first place. Like an image of a couple looking at the view:

people in their own interpretation of my images could see the progress of me going around the town and seeing the things that I saw, I think this is good because opinions on the town can be bias so just showing people the things I saw and want to show, gives it more realism.