One of the first steps to designing my book, is to choose which photos I will include. Below, are the photos I feel work best visually, and in representing the themes and ideas I want to express in my work. I chose photos from throughout the project, not just from specific shoots. I think I want this book to be a guide to my everyday life over the course of many weeks, both in and out of lockdown – therefore I chose photos from all of the shoots.
I also tried to choose photos that would work well together, in terms of colour and lighting. As well as this, I wanted to ensure I would have enough images to tell a story and represent key themes such as beauty in the mundane and everyday perspective. I also want to create some repetition in my book by including similar imagery throughout and returning to familiar themes and places on each page. I made sure to include some food images, as this was a recurring topic throughout my research (especially when looking at William Eggleston and Stephen Shore).
It’s difficult to decide on how I will order the photos at this stage. Usually I would print them so that I could move them around and see how they work on the pages, but without uni open this isn’t an option for me right now. I think the order is important, but this will have to be something I experiment with in InDesign later on.
Although I chose not to continue with Eric Kim’s interesting style of close-up photography, I’m wondering whether I could crop and adjust my images on the pages of my book, to make them look a little different or unrecognisable. This is just an idea I could experiment with. It might also be interesting to consider the way in which Luke Saxon combines his photos. I could experiment with this type of thing on the pages of my book.
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