STORY:
If I were to describe my photo zine in three words they would be: Reflection, Calm and Exploration.
NARRATIVE:
In this visual narrative, the readers/ audience gain more than a view, they get a window into the spirit of St. Helier’s and its harbour.
My zine is designed to capture and celebrate the unique essence of St. Helier Harbour through a carefully crafted narrative. This structure emphasizes the journey through the harbour’s different textures and the varied sights, framed through the experiences of a person walking along the waterfront.
In terms of narrative, the imagery invites viewers to imagine walking beside you along the harbour. Using close-up shots to introduce small details, like weathered rope textures, rusted anchors, and chipped paint on boat hulls. These visuals are intimate and set the tone for the journey.
As the zine progresses, it introduces various elements that make St. Helier Harbour unique: Capturing boats from different angles highlights the diversity of the vessels from classic fishing boats to sleek yachts, giving a feel for the harbour’s role as a commercial space.
As well as that it gives a glimpse into the life of fisheries and their workers, using candid shots, adding a human element to the harbour’s mechanical and industrial tones. The zine also showcases bustling market spaces and shoreline scenes to add vibrancy and contrast to the industrial focus of boats and machinery.
(Typology) In my zine, I used creative, maritime-themed fonts that provoke the essence of the sea and marine life. As well as that I experimented with typewriter fonts and larger typefaces to introduce sections and captions.
I kept captions short, using poetic language to evoke the image’s essence inside my zine but also with my title page.
Below, I have curated a selection of 10-16 final images for a mood board gallery page. I tried to blend the current images and experiment with juxtaposition by placing shots of the fishing vessels and boat rigging against scenes of calm water and sky, giving a sense of both the harbour’s working and tranquil sides.
I also used a repeat of the image as a background and coloured it so that it differentiates effectively and shadows to evoke the changing times of day/ temperature of the image depending on location, which adds an emotional rhythm to the gallery.
