Overall, I believe my personal study was successful in what I was aiming to achieve through ‘snapshot aesthetic’ photographs of my friends and different locations. I displayed my photos within my photobook as a combination of similar photos and juxtapositions- telling a story through monochrome photos which gradually become a more colourful array with a warm tone and the occasional contrasting cooler toned image. Something I could have done to improve my project was to be more organised before the exam, as I still had unedited photographs and was not able to finish my photobook layout during the exam, this I will take into account during the exam project.
My photo book its based on youth culture and identity. For this I took pictures at different parties and events that I went to and took snapshot images of my friends enjoying themselves and being authentic at these events. The story of my phonebooks starts off at a party and throughout these parties are separated with a filler image of one of my friends being hungover and drunks after the party by themselves. The first filler image however starts off with me and my friend having fun in a car symbolising that these parties and events are fun at first but continuing throughout the book the filler images are darker and makes you stop romanticising these parties. My books final images is a girl using a vape outside her window, this image is last in the book because it shows the aftermath of all the parties and that is isn’t fun when you wake up in the morning and it looks like she is thinking and regretting the night before.
My virtual gallery includes my favourite images of my nightlife photos. Overall, I think my favourite images are the far left and right ones. These two images I think go well together and I like the way they are presented in my photo book, as I used them twice, on the front cover and then in the book. The middle image is in the middle because its the biggest image of them all and also is the image with the most going on, you can see a live band in the background and also the girl holding hands dancing with another, It shows what my book represents.
