For this project im going to create my own photobook. Im going to create the photos on multiple shoots, edit and sequence the photos and finally print them into a book. This is a new concept for me as i have only worked in digital work up to this work. Im looking forward to it as i can explore both photographers who create books and motifs that draw me in/catch my attention. 

Published - April 2018

Embossed paperbound hardback

120 pages

23.5 x 23.5cm

This is a beautiful collection of books that show off people and a place. He positions the photos very interestingly, overlapping the photos onto the next page but not letting it fully bleed. It falls into the gutter of the pages but keeps your attention on the focus of the photo. 

‘When paul graham first published a shimmer of possibility he radically redefined the photo-book, distilling his epic travels across America into twelve distinct volumes … viewed afresh in a new edition from MACK, grahams brief encounters are resonant and full oc anticipation …’ - bookforum

The twelve books are a rare sight but an amazing one for whoever can get their hands on it ( the collection costing £500 ) 

Paul graham was awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Prize for the most significant photobook published in the past 15 years , the original set sold out in 10 weeks and has been out of print since.

My favourite page of the book shows of a lady eating food. Its positioned beautifully and is an amazing photo. 

Silkscreened hardcover 

24 x 19cm 

168 pages includes 28 page booklet & postcard

Published November 2011

Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative - the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate's family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way. From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate and reference the techniques of photojournalism, forensic photography, image appropriation, reenactment and documentary landscape photography. On a conceptual level, they deal with a charged landscape and play with a photographic representation and truth as the work deconstructs a pre-existing narrative. Redheaded Peckerwood also utilizes and plays with a pre-existing archive of material, deliberately mixing fact and fiction, past and present, myth and reality as it presents, expands and re-presents the various facts and theories surrounding this story.

My favourite page is the shot of a building overlapping 2 pages but being positioned to the left slightly. It creates such a beautiful mood ans lets you see the colours in the windows. 

Silkscreen printed hardback

24 x 29cm 

128 pages

Published March 2022 

Traditional American landscape photography has become a rather moribund photographic trope... a sanctified, cliched reverence has become the norm. In Halpern's California work, I see him removing himself from the comforte of the past and endeavouring to strike out afresh, rethinking his conditioning and antecedents to break free of this particular mould. Chris Killip

'Beauty and its implication of promise is the metaphor that gives art its value. It helps us rediscover some of our best intuitions, the ones that encourage caring.

Robert Adams

The early settlers dubbed California 'The Golden State' and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies - sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row - but the place is not so easily distilled or visualised, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There's a strange kind of harmony when it's all seen together - the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it's unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh.

Shoot 1 and 2 

For these two shoots, i have explored graffiti a lot. Sadly, it isnt as interesting in my photos as it was to look at in real life as i havent captured the lighting as well as i could have. I have shortlisted to what i think are my best photos but i will revisit it again soon.

2nd location

I explored a lot more themes for this shoot, as i should have done in the first shoots instead of focusing on just one motif. Shortlisting these took a lot longer, allowing me to take my time and link photos together better. My favourite photo is my ducks. They create a perfectly peaceful space that i really like. I wish i had gotten some different lightings for the swans but that will be for another shoot. For now i will wait and reflect on my experience shooting then come back to the photos to have a clear picture of what i want going forward. I will also revisit past photos of mine as i have seen many photographers do that in their work, giving new life to their pasts. I know i have had many photos of birds and such so i may explore that to create an experience of a walk.

Revisiting all of my past photos, including those that do not not with the theme ( the clowns photo on the second photo ) i have relooked at all of my ideas. Ive decided on my photos and think that they flow very well throughout

For my cover i want the two to link. Im goinf to make it a bridge that is close up for the front and far away at the back. I dont want to add a title as i simply want it to be called a walk. Without the title i think it looks quite nice and it wouldnt have the same attention to the photo with text. I will add my name to the back cover, as to give me some credit.

i have shortlisted my photos into these

some of the photos seem to be doubled, but are separated as they show off different lightings. i didnt want to settle on one of the pairs before sequencing them into the book.

this first version got as far as 4 photos. i decided to abandon it as it didnt feel like it was going to be anything but photos thrown into a book

I actually completed this version but it ended up very repetitive due to such similar photos. i liked my use of birds, as youll see in the final version, as it gave the book life.

being inspired by the books i researched, i wanted to include a different placement in my photos. i did this with the diagonal photos and almost full bleed photos. i think the book came out really nicely like this. i kept my bird motif and i think i executed it very well, avoiding repetition if i didnt think i could use it well.

for my final result, i am quite happy with it. the images flow nicely, the format fits well and the images are eye catching. i wouldve liked my book to be a lot less dark on some images but for a first attempt at a book, i think it has come out well. if i revisited this again i would use a lot brighter images as then the details would stand out a lot better. i dont think i will revisit this method of photo making though as i like to present my images as their own self instead of a collection that all link together as some of the photos i had taken that i thought were amazing did not fit with the other photos made and therefore couldnt be put into the book without looking out of place.