Henry Wessel
The prominent photographer spent 4 many years documenting small, in among moments of existence together along with his Leica 35mm camera. Wessel`s photos depict curious scenes that inspire the viewer to apply their imagination: what testimonies lie past the smartly trimmed hedges, the signal for `ice` withinside the center of the Arizonian desert, or the empty automobile parking space backdropped via way of means of towering palm trees? What is at the thoughts of the lone guy in a complete in shape at the beach, or the couple in matching Hawaiian t-shirts?
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My thoughts:
This image caught my attention out of all of the other images I saw as the way in which the light falls onto the objects and structures in this piece really intrigued me and made me want to investigate what this photographer's work is about and what led up to when he took this photo. The composition of this image seems to have been thought out quite well and has been precisely done to only have shown what is wanted by Wessel. The main subject for this image to me looks like it is meant to be the composition of where the light falls onto the structures and how the shadows fall onto everything else within the image. I was really drawn to this piece as light and shadow is a big thing in which I am exploring at the moment, within this image these shadows have been captured so poetically and so precisely that it all falls into place with the tree and the shadow from the house feels like something that is a split moment thing, that can't be caught again even if someone were to try. Capturing a moment in time with the light falling creating shadows that may never appear in the same place again falls right in the line of what I am exploring at the moment, and this is exactly what Henry Wessel has done for most of his images.
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Summer Pictures:
I took these images with a fujifilm XT-3, in different locations, from the city to the seaside.
For these photographs I have noticed that they all have the same sort of style, which stands out to me as being where the light is falling throughout different objects and areas in the picture. These pictures were taken over my summer holidays and I spent some time developing my editing skills which is why there are many different styles going on within these images. However, I still wanted to focus on what I have been doing for a while which is to focus on shadow and light and where the light falls on different subjects and objects within the world. The black and white images are influenced by Henry Wessel's work on shadow and light, which I have researched about.
Paul Graham
Paul Graham is a current British photographer recognised for his sequential shadeation prints of human beings engaged in each day life. His 12 quantity photobook A Shimmer of Possibility (2007), summarizes Graham`s hobby in calling interest to disregarded sports or places. “It has gradually turn out to be much less critical to me that the pictures are approximately some thing withinside the maximum apparent way. I am interested by extra elusive and nebulous problem matter,” he has explained. Born in 1956 in Stafford, United Kingdom, he studied at Bristol University and started taking pictures at some point of the 1970s. Graham had his first display in 1986, generating shadeation pictures along some different younger British photographers which includes Martin Parr and Richard Billingham. The artist presently divides his time among New York, NY and London, United Kingdom. Today, his works are held withinside the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fotomuseum Wintherthur in Switzerland, and the Tate Gallery in London, amongst others.
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My thoughts
This photographer caught my eye as I really liked the style of Paul's photography and the way that the images come across to the viewer. I really like the fact that most of his work has been done around people and how the world effects them and how they effect the world from all parts of the world. The thing that highlighted his work for me is the colours in which standout in his photos, even though i have a love for black and white images something about Pauls' work and the way he contrasts different colours in his work is really well done, not made to vibrant but almost made to fade away in the background, while still being the center of attention.
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Personal Investigation Research
What is it within your photography that you are really interested in?
I am interested in the management of time, and the element of unknown within my work, I am really interested in knowing if time changes a persons perspective of an image and not knowing what you have taken for a short of long period of time for me is something I am really interested in. What is it about your project that you want to know? I would love to know how the element of time and super of the moment will have in common and just to know what exactly I can do to make this project experimental and also different from other projects I have done in the past. What is it that you want to document? I intend to document the falling of light and the element of inspiration, capturing where the light falls on different objects and things to capture a moment in time wont be there again. leading on form that I want to include the elements of time and unknown into the post shooting of the photos, I want to be able to capture the images and then use the element of time to wait and not look at the captured images for a period of time and and to not look at them until the set date I set. This brings in the element of unknown, not knowing how the images have turned out until days later giving the moment time to fade away and then when looking back on then it brings the moment back to life for just that millisecond of a moment. |
How much do you want to document what you see?
I want to document everything and anything that beings me inspiration from where the light fall on everything to how something is placed in a specific way. What do you want to share with the viewer? I want to share a moment in that has been captured that has only been captured in that one moment in time and even if you went back to that place again there would be light falling differently and the moment of the photo would be gone. I want to show the viewer that capturing moments in time that will never be seen again is a moment in time and history that photograph was taken for a reason and the moment in time was captured. What do you want the viewer to experience? I would like the viewers to take what ever they feel from these images away with them, look at them and experience what how and what the image means to them the images are being taken from no more that a split second of thought and capture so these images are there for the time in history to be reflected. having the realisation that you blink and time and space have changed in that millisecond that it has been taken. |
Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide became born in 1942 in Mexico City. In 1969 she enrolled on the age of 27 on the movie faculty Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos on the Universidad Nacional Autónama de México to end up a movie director. However she became quickly interested in the artwork of nonetheless pictures as practiced via way of means of the Mexican modernist grasp Manuel Alvarez Bravo who became coaching on the University. From 1970-seventy one she laboured as Bravo`s assistant accompanying him on his numerous photographic trips all through Mexico. In the early 1/2 of the 1970s, Iturbide traveled broadly throughout Latin America specially to Cuba and numerous journeys to Panama.
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My thoughts
I was really drawn to Graciela's work as when looking at these images they gave me the impression of stillness and like the people have effected the world through her images. These images really made me think about my work and my photography and how she has and could influence me within my project and to see what I could include within my work to use the inspiration and to give me an idea of the different ways in which I could introduce or experiment with during development of my personal investigation. This would broaden my horizons in the many way that photographers incorporate there personal style into there work and hopefully i can use some of there ideas to boost mine to develop my ideas.
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Time - 25.09.22
These images are a response to the researched photographers and are a sort of combination of each of the things that they gave to me when learning about them and there work, for this I decided to bring all of the things that inspired me about them and put them all into one shoot to see what they have influenced me about.
I think that this shoot went really well. There are a couple of under and over exposed images but those are because I didn't change the exposure on the camera as I was meant too as I was in a rush. From this shoot I will take away the fact that when I am out taking these derives I need to make sure that I have left enough time for my self so that I don't get rushed through setting up and capturing that image. Despite this I think that the images that I took my time on went really well and that the simplicity of the images comes through when displaying these image in the way that I have.
Research for Essay Writing
For my final essay we were asked to go away and research a photograph and an artist that we were interested in, we then took that research and put it all into an essay which will go towards 1/3 of the final draft. I decided that I would research and talk about one of Henry Wessels photographs, which hopefully would expand my knowledge in many ways to help me find my own style and what kind of photographer I would like to be.
For this research task I watched a short documentary and took some notes on what stood out to me and what I could take into my essay writing, I wrote down the most important things I thought would help me structure and write my essay and wrote them down in note form to give my self some pointers when it comes to writing the essay. I also took some quotes from what Henry Wessel said within the video and decided to use them as references for my essay so that i could relate to them and analyze them to expand on my work.
Daidō Moriyama
Moriyama changed into born in Kyoto Japan, and changed into taught pictures via way of means of Takeji Iwamiya. He later moved to Tokyo, and have become a pictures assistant, for 3 years, for Eikoh Hosoe, who changed into a expert photographer, specialising excessive comparison black and white images. Hosoe`s paintings changed into likely influential for Moriyama, as each their works are by and large black and white, and attention on shapes. Around this time, Moriyama began out running on a pictures challenge which changed into approximately the darker aspects to city life, which had been left at the back of in development. Moriyama`s paintings is by and large black and white, and it ambitions to seize the fragmentary nature of present day life, moments which might be misplaced because of the push we stay in. He frequently does this the use of tilted horizons, and really excessive comparison. This comparison approach that maximum of the mid tones aren't visible, growing a feel of thriller and confusion in his photographs.
Time - 03.10.22
For this shoot I decided to experiment with the different way that I could see and use my concept, this idea was to capture things going on around me, and through it is still capturing moments in time there is a different in it as in this shoot I am capturing the people, the busyness of moments in time as well as the landscapes around me, where as in contrast to what I usually capture which is just the landscapes and simplicity in moments in time.
These images where taken in London at the south-bank, after looking thought all of these images i really don't like how they turned out and this experiment that I did with these images is something that I don't think I will be trying again as they onto really fit in with the concept and idea that I have. I found when looking back at these images and comparing them with the images that I usually take and the style of them, that these images are very busy and much too loud for my style of photography. I also found that when still trying something new I slipped back into my quiet and more sinister way of capturing moments in time, I can see this starting to leek through in some of my images. This shows me that even when trying to change it up a little in my style of shooting I still seam to have a love for the simple things in time, and capturing the. for the world to see as they may have not been seen the way I see them before.
Josef Koudelka
Koudelka changed into born in Czechoslovakia. Although he earned a diploma in Engineering, and began out running withinside the field, he has continually been interested by photography, and has practiced shape a younger age. However, this remained a interest for him, till later in his existence. It changed into in 1967 while he gave up his profession in engineering to emerge as a complete time photographer. He to start with labored in a theatre, taking pics of the level all through performances, but he were given his begin in battle photography, while he took pics all through the Prague spring, in 1968. Due to the oppressive Soviet regime, his negatives wherein smuggled in another country to the Magnum agency, and the pics have been anonymously posted in The Sunday Times. He joined Magnum photos, in 1971, and persevered to image Europe. Koudelka is maximum widely recognized for his pics of the Prague invasion. However, later in his profession, he targeted extra on the agricultural existence of romanis in Romania and Slovakia, aleven though he nonetheless labored on overlaying conflicts, which include the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, withinside the 1990s.
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My thoughts
I came across Josef's work and decided to do some research on him as even though his work is more involved i the world where my photography is more about looking onto the world and being more distant and taking images of the structure of the world instead of the people in it. Dissipate this I decided to look into Josef to see the differences and the contrasting views of our work. His work really mad me question what I want to to do within my personal investigation and it gave me an in site into another direction i could take my photography and see what i could patently incorporate into my final project and my final idea and piece of photography.
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Project 07
Project 07 is a project that I decided to experiment with where I will be looking at the pros and cons of taking film and digital black and white photographs, I am doing this as I want to figure out what kind of proses I would like to use for my final project and to do this I need to experiment to see different outcomes. To do this project I decided that all of the images will be taken while on a walk/derive and they will all be from the inspiration of Henry Wessels work on walks and finding things that catch your eye in the moment. Each image will be taken while on a derive and the walks will all be different and unknown to me.
Project 07, Digital photographs
First Walk:
For this Derive I went on a morning walk with my grandad, he does this exact walk every morning to go and get his tea from the tea hut next to the prom. All of these images are in a random order, I have done this as when thinking about what I wanted the viewers of my work to see I wanted them to find their own root of getting to the tea hut. While on this walk my grandad told me and showed me some things that we use to do while we were growing up in that area, these images could also have some influence of what convocations I was having at the time of this walk, but again I'm not sure as what all these pictures have in common is that I took them in the moment.
Second walk:
For this derive I took a walk from where I was staying in Morecambe onto the sea side town no further than a 40 minite walk from each other, while capturing the simplicity of the rural area and the unique features that the path showed to me as I walked closer to the sea front. And then capturing shots when I got to the front, from the market that I walked in to the jetty that I walked down, capturing anything and everything that caught my eye to capture the moment in time.
I really enjoyed this shoot as even though I know where my destination was all I did was follow the singes and went where the path took me. The idea of not knowing how far my destination was gave me so much more time into the images that I was taking and just helped me to focus on everything around me. The day I shot this derive it was during a sunrise in the early hours of the morning before anyone's was up and I was the only one on the path for miles. The result of these images turned out exactly how I wanted them to, the way that the sun hits the landscape and the
Experimenting with Image and Text:
For this experiment I spent some time researching some different quotes that relate to my project of taking images in the moment and these quotes are all about living in the moment. After finding some quotes that fit well for project I then selected images that I thought would work well for the moment theme and then added them to the Unfolded app to then chose a template which I liked from what I had already used and the imported quotes into the app and then exported them. I then decided that the way I wanted to show them is to upload them to Instagram.
These are the final edited images and text:
The final posted images and text:
After posting these images I found that there as a lot of good reactions and views about the posts. As merging text and image together isn't something that I would have nessaserly done before within my work and this idea of text and image seams to work quite nicely with the derive images that I am going for thought-out this project. I think this went really well and that this is exactly what I am going explore for my series of short photo books.
Project 07, Film Developing
During a short getaway I decided to take a role of film to see what the different ways of developing and producing photography can impact my work. While away I took take a series of photos with a digital camera and film camera to see what type of camera impacts my final product and the output of the images. So when I got back I got my film developed, while still in the dark room I made a contact sheet of the negatives. while looking at the negatives I figured out that there was a light leek within the camera that I used, this means that there was light leaking onto my role of film while I was capturing my images. This means that most of the images that I took on the role were compromised slightly, this doesn't mean to say that they arnt any good to use or that they didn't come out as images at all it just means that they look a little different than I first anticipated them to be. After looking at them and making the contact sheet I then let the contact sheet dry and then went out of the dark room and started making progress on scanning in my images to convert them/make them digital.
The final digitalised images
While taking these images I went on an afternoon walk with my grandad, for this derive we walked down the prom onto the stone jetty and got some tea and cake from the jetty cafe. When on this walk I had the same mind set of what I had when taking the first set of images on the morning derive. These images are all in a random order from when they were taken, I have done this as I want the viewer to see the walk as they want to. While taking the time to look at the beautiful environment that I was surrounded in, I was having a convocation with my grandad again this time we spoke about the history and facts about the place that we are walking in and this properly gave me some influence when I was talking these images. After the scanning proses of these images I decided to do a little bit of editing of them to give them all the same look and colouring as the scanner made the colour a little bit messed up.
Final editing Negatives:
While editing these images I did a couple of minor changes too them, one including making sure that each of the images look like they are all from the same role of film and that the exposure of the images are looking good before I exported everyone of the images.
Final Negative Images:
Developing and printing:
After scanning all of the negatives to make them digitalised, I then took some time in the dark room learning how to mix the different developing chemicals and how to measure all of the different ratios of water to chemicals. After learning everything I needed to know to develop and print my work I then started to experiment with the different kinds of light to expose my images to create the right kind of exposure that I wanted for my final output image. After choosing two different images to print it took me me a couple of times to get the image that I was looking for. I then took some time to let them dry and came back the next day to have a look at them all properly in the light. I didn't really like how they turned out but it was a learning curve which made me think more about my future printing times.
Displaying my work:
To share and display my work for people to see I chose at random four different images from this role of film that I took and then put them into an app called Unfolded and the chose a couple of different templates and imported my images into the template. After putting them into the template I then decided on an order to post these images and then uploaded them to Instagram with a caption of where the photos have been taken and the date that i shot the role of film. And here is the proses of what I did to get to my final outcome.
Editing process and Final edited and posted images:
Designing the first book of the series
Giving each of the books a different kind of feel and look to them gives them a bit of uniqueness
to them, while making them slightly different they will aslo have alot of simalaritys in the way that
the writing and frount and back pages will stay the same.
to them, while making them slightly different they will aslo have alot of simalaritys in the way that
the writing and frount and back pages will stay the same.
Book one : Blink.
When designing this first book of my series, I started by selecting a series of images from my derive that I took for this book and to fit the title. I then selected 10-12 images from my selection that I took when on a deriver in Greenwich. After selecting the images I then started to add them to a photo book template and made a first draft of a rough idea of what I wanted the book to look like. I then decided to print the book of in order and worked on the order of the book by flicking through and laying out all of the pages to see that looks better in hand instead of on screen.
After laying all of the images out and finding an order that I was happy with I then went back onto the Canva photo book template and changed it digital to make sure everything was up to date. After doing this I decided to them print the finished order onto contact paper which is the paper I am going to be using for my final piece and then started to trim and add all of the sheets together. I then decided to make a draft of what the final set will look like, to do this I trimed and cut the pages to size that I was happy with and then added a little tempry binding tool to the spine until I find a permeant saluting to binding all of the photo books together.
Book two : Spur
When designing this second book of my three book series, I first selected a series of 10-15 Images that I took on another derive near the see this time the derive was in Eastbourne. After selecting a series of images for my derive I then started to look on the online template that made my self and added the images in to that in an order that I liked according to how the images looked to me at the time, I then printed of a first draft of my order that I had created and laid them out to see what they would look like in the book.
After flicking through this draft I realised that I really didn't like how they were looking in the order and some of the images together looked to compact. I then came up with the idea to add some blank pages within the book to see if it made it look any better.
After adding some blank pages and looking thought the book again I found that it acutely looks a lot more spaced out and cleaner which I really liked so I decided to go with this final version. To finalise this I made it into a final draft onto my website as a digital copy and then printed it out on a4 paper. I then came across an artist called Matthew Genitempo and his most resent work on a series of images that he took when he was on walks with his wife during lockdown. After looking at his latest photo book I decided to take inspiration from his work and started to do some experimenting with the binding techniques that he used.
Book Three : The Bay
When designing my first book of my three photo book series, I first selected a series of 10-15 images that I took on the derive I shot while I was in Morecambe. After selecting a series of images from my derive I then started to look for a sort of order that I could put them in for the final draft of the book, Having a couple of options of photos on hand as spare while ordering them really helped me have some options to work with for backup incase some of them didn't work as well as I would have liked them to.
I then made a Quick little mock up of all of the pages and the order I had decided in it. After designing and making this I decided that the order didn't acutely work as well as I wanted it to, so when uploading and making my digitalised draft I used my problem solving skills to figure out a different order that I was happy with. Adding them into the template that I had made and placing them into there order from what I had laid out and decided previously. After deciding the order I then had to decide Where I wanted to place my Quotations which will be spread put though-out the series of books showing my experimentation with wording and images.
Matthew Genitempo
Mother of Dogs:
Mother of Dogs chronicles the artist’s early evening walks with his partner alongside the railroad tracks near their home in Marfa, Texas. Edition of 375. 13.5x16 inches. 68 pages. 43 b&w tritone plates printed on uncoated paper. Fastened with kraft tape. (Imperfections may be present because each page is individually affixed by hand.)
This photo book stood out to me because of the unique ness of the binding and the simplicity of the design. I found that when looking into Matthew Genitempo's work more that his black and white imagery looks almost like what I have been focussing on throughout my project. Especially this book 'Mother of Dogs' this is because this series of images that come together to make this photo book are taken as a derive, or a series of them, and that is what I have focused on, walking and talking images.
Experimentation
Blink:
To digitally show this book I decided to do a short flick through of the final photo book. When watching this video you will hear some nature sounds, I have done this as when taking these images this is the kind of sounds that I heard, so I thought that by adding these images with a little sound gives the viewer more of a sense of how these images came about and how the atmosphere was when these images were captured.
This is my experimentation after looking at Matthew Genitempo work i decided to experiment with this series of photo books with this binding technique. I took the time to make sure that all of the images were printed on the paper the right way up and that the order made sense, I would have improved on the contrast of all the images to make sure that they didn't come out to over or under exposed. After doing this I then did a couple of tests with the gum tape to make sure I had a good idea of what I am doing for the final book. I then started to stick the book together using the gum tape. I then found that there was a little bit of struggle to find a place for them to dry without getting the tape stuck to anything else, so I came up with the idea of hanging them up on the washing line until they dry. After finishing all of the pages I then took a couple of days to make sure they were completely dry. Once dry I found that thought the experiment I could have done some things to make the outcome of my book as it didn't look exactly how I would like it too. One of the things that I will have to improve on for next time is the application of the gum tape as there isn't as neat and as slick as I would like it to be, I will also work on compressing the pages much earlier so that when dry the individual pages are not crumpled and wrinkly as they were on this experiment. But overall I really liked this experiment and I think that I will be using this binding technique again in some of my future photo book binding of my work.
Isolation Shoot
I got covid which means that I had to isolate for 5 days, using my initiative I decided to take advantage of the time I had and did a shot a series of images thought the days I was stuck in my room. While also shooting this series I realised that the way things move around is a moment in time which cant be captured again in the way that I had captured them. This links to the concept 4 that I have been using to look at my personal investigation, this gave me another look on my project and gave me another side to my idea and that when capturing these images I don't necessarily need to go on a derive or go to new locations as there is something new to capture even in some of the most familiar places to you. I took to advantage the different mediums of cameras I could use so I did a series of the images on film and digital.
Digital:
Digital:
These are the digital images that I took thought this 5 day period. From this shoot I took away the idea of still life, and that there is so many different ways to place different object which then reflect the lights in different ways to produce a different outcome of shot every time.
Film:
Film:
These are the Film images that I took thought the 5 day period. From looking at these images I have seen the similarities when comparing these images to the images I have been taking on my derives, using my initiative and inspirations to follow my finger to pressing the shutter. While talking these images I wouldn't give myself any time limit, I would just have the camera next to me the whole day and when I saw something that caught my eye i would press the shutter and capture that moment in time before the inspiration of what I first saw went away.
Frost Photos
On a cold frosty morning I decide to go on a little derive to capture the moment of fog and frost nature in the moment before then moment in time was gone. I decided to just walk and see where the rode took me. I shot on a couple of different mediums of photography, I brought two different cameras, an iPhone 13 and also a film camera to see what I could capture on both. The way I decided on which camera to take them on depended on what the shot looked like, if it was a shot that had a pop of colour that I wanted to show of I took it with the iPhone but if I wanted to show my surroundings in a more sinister and gloomy look then I would shoot on the film camera.
Digital:
Digital:
I this this shoot gave me a little bit off a look into the nature side of photography as there was no sun for me to look for the shadows falling onto objects so I had to think about other ways of looking for inspiration through my shoot. While shooting I found that I really enjoyed the nature, I shot everything that I liked the look of or that I enjoyed looking at. I believe this shoot went really well as it broadened my horizons to see what other mediums of photography I explored.
Film:
Film:
Terri Weifenbach
Terri Weifenbach makes use of the richness of gardens and parks because the web-web page for her panorama images. Personal in scale, but grand in its vision, those prints render herbal states which are splendid, evocative and sublime. Selective focus, saturated colors, and thoroughly selected views lend the paintings a cussed sort of beauty.
Rinko Kawauchi
Rinko Kawauchi is a modern-day Japanese photographer recognized for her lyrical pics of elemental subjects. Based withinside the Shinto faith in addition to the works of Irving Penn, Kawauchi`s photos seize normal moments with a profound nearly hallucinatory perspective. “From the black ocean comes the advent of mild and waves.
Gift:
Rinko Kawauchi and Terri Weifenbach, across the world identified woman photographers, keep correspondence via way of means of changing photographs. Kawauchi is certainly considered one among Japan`s best-recognised photographers. Weifenbach creates incredible photos of herbal landscapes. They owned books of every other`s works and started changing photos via-e-mail in 2011. “Gift” is a end result of this photographic exchange.
Film development
For the development of this role of film, I first got it developed. And after waiting for it to dry I then looked over all of the images with a light box to see how they all look, and overall i believe that they turned out really well and there were only a few over exposed and under exposed images that couldn't be used.
I then looked over the images that I could use and chose a couple to print and develop with the chemicals in the dark room. but when I first mixed the chemicals together I didn't mix them correctly so they weren't developing the images onto the printing paper, so I went back and researched the exact measurements again to make sure I mixed them right the next time. After researching I then went back and developed the chemicals again. after fixing that problem I then started by looking at the different light timings and did some testing calculations to make sure I exposed the photographic paper enough to create an image on it. After a couple of try's I then I took the time to make sure the exposure we right, and then printed the image as a final print. I then decided to looks at ways of showing my work and my prints.
Scanning my negatives:
After being in the dark room I decided I would go and scan all of my negatives into the printer so that I could digital work with them to create something to show my images. Once all of my negatives were scanned in digitally I airdrop all of the images to my to my laptop and put them into photos to have a look at the exposed images and touched them up with some editing and framing and then exported them onto my desktop.
Displaying my work:
When thinking about what to make, my first thought was to use the Gum tape binding technique to make a mini zine. But then I thought I would try experimenting with something different, so I did a little research about some different binding techniques that I could use. Through this I came across needle and thread binding, where you stitch your pages together. This really caught my attention as there was something really nice and simple about this way of binding and for these zines that I am making are intended to be quite delicate and small.
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I then decided to make the books digital by filming a flick through video with some sounds of the areas while capturing these images the sounds that I heard.
Developing my idea more:
I then decided that I wanted to do something more with these twin books, and decided to do some more research into some artists that have done a similar thing to what I am doing. Through this research I came across an artist called Terri Weidenbach and Rinko Kawauchi, who made and designed a book called gift, they collaborated on this book to create a collaboration of their individual work and bring it together.This book is a series of two books which are stuck together and go together as a pair, after learning a little more about this book and the artist, I decided to design my book like hers and create my own sort of conjoined books. I also found out that within the library of books that we have I found a copy of Gift so i looked at it and captured some images of it to document what I saw.