Narrative –

• 3 words – My faith journey.
• A sentence – I want to represent my journey to finding my faith and the emotions that come with it.
• A paragraph – I would really like to use documentary photography to represent in detail the journey of finding my faith using hidden messages and drawings to show the emotions I had felt in specific moments.

My Photobook Design

• How you want your book to look and feel – I want my book to look ominous and eye catching, something that would really grab the readers attention and make them want to properly look through and understand the stories behind my images. To make this happen I am planning on using one of my darker images to give that feel. I would like it to feel somewhat lightweight with a nice smooth feel to it.

• Paper and ink – I am going to be using black & white images in the first half of the photobook therefore I wanted the paper to be black to make sure the photos looked well and fit the book. for those black pages I used white text to make sure it was visible. However for the second half of the photobook, it was all light images so I used white paper this was also representing the light at the end of darkness for these pages I used black text to make it stand out.

• Format, size and orientation – With the sizing of my images, every image within the photobook was A4 and filled the whole page. The orientation of all images within the book were portrait images.

• Binding and cover – For my photobook I decided on a hard cover I chose this as for me it seemed like the best fit and it was the most aesthetically pleasing. For the actual look of the cover I had used an image which I created to represent my faith and made it an image wrap going around the whole cover to create a mysterious effect so that it draws the readers attention closer and making them want to open the book and look through it.

• Title

For the title I had a few ideas, I originally came up with calling it “chosen” I had originally decided on this as it was relevant to the fact that I feel chosen by God. However I then also decided that I also liked the name “ichthus” This one has a lot of meaning, in Greek this word means ‘fish of Jesus’. It has more hidden meaning than just that, each letter stands for something individually. the overall meaning is ‘Jesus Christ Son Of God Saviour’ I felt this would have been a really good title for my photobook as it represents what my photobook was about and the story behind it. In the end I decided to call it ‘Captured by the Spirit’, I decided on this as it not only incorporates the fact I captured the images with my camera but also the fact that the Holy Spirit had entered me almost as if it was representing the fact it captured my life. I really liked the fact it was representing two things at once, one being the literal camera capture of photographs and the other being the metaphorical capture of being taken by the faith.

• Editing and sequencing – for my images I am going to edit them according to which side of the photobook they are going in, for the first half of the photobook the images are going to be in black & white to represent the confusion and uncertainty of life before finding faith so for these images I will edit them with a higher contrast, less whites and emphasizing the blacks and darker parts of the images whilst having the black & white filter on them. Whereas for the second half of the images they will not have a black and white filter they will have a bright enlightening filter (N7) representing the light, peace and joy life brings after finding faith.

• Images and text – For my images I have half and half to create the storyline, the first half of the photobook I have made all of the images black & white to represent the darkness of being lost before finding faith. Then the second half of the images in the photobook were in full colour with a lot of calming and cool colours to represent the joys and peace after finding faith and the feelings it brings with it. For my photobook I have decided to use a bible verse as a quote every once in a while throughout the photobook.