PLANNING PHOTOBOOK

Narrative: What is your story?
Describe in:

3 words

Documenting through typologies.

A sentence

Documenting my duel-nationality, in the form of typologies.

A paragraph

The documentation of my duel-nationality through the juxtaposition of my family in Poland and Jersey. By documenting my personal emotion of nostalgia through my memories of landscape’s I will present my images in the form of typologies. Furthermore, by taking images of my family members, I can express my identity through the portraitures of my family and how it influences my sense of nostalgia.

Design: Consider the following

How you want your book to look and feel
Paper and ink
Format, size and orientation
Binding and cover
Title
Structure and architecture
Design and layout
Editing and sequencing
Images and text

DESIGN OF PHOTOBOOK:

I want my book to look organised and have a calm aesthetic. I will achieve this by editing all my images in black and white with the same adjustments. In order of the layout I will leave the left page blank and right page with an image, this will keep the photobook well structed and less chaotic with a number of images. However in the middle of my book I will create a typology grid, inspired by the Becher’s, with images of houses. The structure of this images will be the same with it either being a straight mid shot, or a slight angle shot of the houses, this is so that in the grid the sequence works. For the title of my book I will name it ‘Untitled’ this is so it can challenge the stereotypical idea of naming a book something cliché, however it also suggests the photobook can be interpreted however the reader might understand it which gives this sense of ambiguity. The cover of my book will not be an image included in the book, it will be a simple oat coloured material that binds it together, this will further create mystery while also keeping the aesthetic of the book. Since most of my images are landscape the orientation of the book will be landscape however to add some shape into the book, I will be alternating between landscape and portrait images.

SCREENGRABS OF A FEW PAGES OF PHOTOBOOK; UNFINISHED: