Narrative: What is your story?

In 3 words:

Life, memories, moments

In a sentence:

This photobook is a glimpse inside the life of another.

In a paragraph:

The narrative of this photobook, is to show a small segment of the lives of the people close to me. My aim is to portray the differences in the way every person lives their life uniquely from one another. Although this photobook only reflects particular moments, when observing the images, you are looking into a part of my life, and more specifically my friends and family’s who are in the images. This could be considered as ‘mirror’ images as they are reflecting myself and that is the main idea.

Design:

My photobook will use matte photopaper to make my images look classy and for a more subdued feel. I will be making a standard landscape photobook (25 x 20cm). I am going to use a hardcover image wrap for my book.

The title of my book is ‘3:38’, I have decided on this title as there are no words to describe what is inside of the book and I think it makes it more intriguing.

When designing this book, I carefully picked which images would sit well next to one another. I decided on whether the photographs fit well into the story together, whether they shared some similarities, if the people in the photographs differentiated etc. to come to the final sequence of images.

Once I had the order of my photographs in place, I then altered the presentation of each image. I have displayed some images across the whole singular page, some in the middle with the page bordering them, and some across a whole double page spread. I used a variety of ways to show my images to avoid repetition, and to reflect on how each page was a different part of the story.