No Place Like Home features the work of local and internationally acclaimed artists and invites Islanders to consider their ‘home’ on a personal, national, global and even cosmic scale.
The exhibition features 23 gallery based artworks and three external installation pieces, all of which explore ‘home’ from different perspectives, including considerations around Jersey’s housing crisis and international perspectives on the health of our planet. Whilst we live in a time when this can be a complex and serious subject, the pieces on display are often playful and interactive and invite the viewer to reflect on their own interpretation and experience.
A sentence – creating my experience of St. Malo in the form of a zine.
A paragraph – My zine will be focusing on the people of St. Malo as they go about their everyday lives. I’m focusing my zine on this as I believe it is important to stop and look around at other people as well as the world around us. We often get so caught up in our own lives, jobs and problems that we fail to recognize that each person we come across, not matter how brief it is, will have unique and interesting life experiences that differ to our own. Somethings we may come across we are able to relate to, such as walking a dog, while other things will inspire us to try something new, such as pier jumping. Either way, noticing how other people act and live out their own lives often helps us to reflect on our own experiences.
NARRATIVE:How will you tell your story?
I will tell my experience of St. Malo through the use of photographs. They will be focusing on the people I come across that stuck out to me.
I will make my photos in a mix of black and white or colour, depending on which helps the photos features to stand out more. I will also lay out my zine in a way that makes my best images stand out the most to make it more eye catching for the viewer.
I will be making a zine about the St Malo trip that we went on the screen shots below are a showcase of my zine so far and my zine is about showing off the pictures I took in St Malo the writing in the photos are just filler text at the moment
What is a zine
What is a zine, a zine is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine. Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation.
On InDesign i made a 16 page layout and started to place my images and decided which was my preferred layout. I changed some of my image selections and had to decide whether i wanted the images to have a boarder, be full bleed or cover a double page spread.
For some images I decided to use photoshop to add a bit of colour to my black and white images of graphiti however the rest of the images remained monochrome.
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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson – 1932
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.
Dmitri Tcherbadji – Monochrome
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.
Images > St Malo street photographs and AI generated images in relation to theme of NOSTALGIA…
Archives > Old photos of St Malo or any found/ stock imagery…
Texts > Typography, words, street signs, graffiti..
My Story and Narrative:
I chose to look more at the urban side of the city as well as the traditional view of the beautiful beaches and walled in town. This included things such as street art and graphiti as well as images of people enjoying time at the beach and trying out the restaurants and bars. When choosing which people to photograph I tried to get a range of different age groups and, in my zine, formatted my images from young to old showing the varied activities and different experiences of the place depending on their ages.
A narrative can be described as a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fiction. A book, literary work, etc., containing such a story, or the art, technique, or process of narrating, or of telling a story.
In summary the narrative is the way in which a story is told. It is possible to have different narratives of the same story as it is a very subjective process with no right or wrong.
Narrative is constructed when you begin to form relationships between images and present more than two images together. Your selection of images and the sequencing contributes significantly to the formation of the narrative. However, it is essential that you identity what your story is first before considering how you wish to tell it.
