Book Layout - INSIDE OUTSIDE / OUTSIDE INSIDE
Each photo in my "Up River / The Moment Before or After" series can stand on their own as glowing and blurry fields of view. Collected in a book layout, however, the photos start to take on even more complex qualities, with a new "bigger picture" perspective on every photo, as well as a new aspect of percieving possible or invented relationships between photos. There is no true connection to these photos, other than they were my favorite 20 out of around 200.
The book itself I wanted to keep very simple, with the only thing standing out being alternation between one photo on a spread (with the other page left blank), or two paired together. I tried to find the best photos to pair together and the best to stand alone, as well as the order of photos and the experience of it all flipping through each page. The pages themselves are all black background, making the glow between the leaves stand out even more. I equally considered a white background, letting the image's whitest shapes blend in with the background, breaking the framing and interaction with each photo. I eventually decided on black because I ultimately wanted the experience to be about the vibrance and energy in each photo and their experience as a series, which I felt a white background would start to dissolve into a single "image" (which would be really cool actually, let the pages be completely taken up by the photos--picture that book too paired alongside the black book).
Here are the links for the book--for some reason it is split into a PDF of the cover and a PDF of the actual textblock content.
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