Zine One – Layout + Experimentation

I plan on making a single section zine – adding smaller inserts into the pages via stitching + Collage. I plan to bind the back of this book myself so I have the freedom to add pages and new images.

Creating Juxtapositions

When thinking about the layout of my zine I want to take inspiration from Kawauchi’s Photobooks specifically her juxtapositions and parallels between pages. She often pairs images by shapes as I have attempted to do here by paring two photographs that have multiple diagonal leading lines.

Framing – I decided to have one image bleed over the edge instead of both having equal framing as I think it makes it more visually interesting and better splits the photos apart.
Experimenting with square format

I decided that the square format images would be too small on an already small Zine – I feel it leave too much empty space.

Looking at layouts for writing on first few pages.

Experimenting with different images formatting.

Whilst I like this Experiment I feel it looks unrealistic and almost ‘pop art’ I think it moves too far from the idea of natural and mundane beauty.

Experimenting with matching and contrasting photos by colour;
Experimenting with colour Grading – I was attempting to create a grey background. – Decided that this looked a litle too unrealistic and i much preferred a more natural colour scheme.

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