To start the process of creating my photobook i had to decide my focus following the theme of nostalgia. Initially, I was going to do Childhood vs Teen life as i wanted to explore the comparison and contrast. However once my teenage images began to form I realised I didnt need to physically include the childhood images to show the contrast as the teen images themselves are dramatic and emotive.

During this project I carried out multiple shoots which included two artist inspired shoots:

• Justine Kurland
• Jim Goldberg

Once I was content with the amount of images I had to work with, I started to sift out the less successful outcomes and began work on the successful ones.

On Lightroom, I edited the images to look how I had envisioned them to and selected my favourite outcomes.

I then used my 29 selected outcomes to begin my photobook layout and playing around with the different positions and orders to place them in.

Once I completed the layout and was happy with how the book looked i ordered a physical copy of my book.

My book was successful in many ways such as the overall images are visually appealing and powerful outcomes however after receiving my book i realised that some of my double page spreads were ruined by the fold in the centre of them which caused some portraits to look distorted etc. This was helpful though as in future I know to be more cautious with which images to use for double page spreads. Overall, this project was a success and taught me what to be aware of when creating a photobook.