Evaluation of Zine

I am overall very happy with the Zine I produced from this project. I think it represents my them of beauty in the mundane well. I think I was successful with my sequencing of work – taking a lot of inspiration from Rinko Kawauchi’s approach to juxtaposition.

for the front cover I wanted to focus on light and abstraction so I found several images I had with a solar flare.
I am particularly proud of the diptych as they both mirror each other in horizontal leading lines and i think werfe a strong start for this book.
I think the ‘ zine within a zine’ worked well and added texture to an otherwise very linear booklet. If I were to do it again I think I would try to make more abstract images and include more photomanipulation.
In future I think it would be interesting to do more work with cyanography as the small insert was effective in conveying my theme of light and beauty.
Examples of my attempts to juxtapose more unnatural images next to natural ones.

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I am overall very happy with the Zine I produced from this project.

Making Cyanotypes

I attempted to create cyanotypes for this project to add into my zine as page inserts.

Final Images + Presentation

Displaying Images

A3 Mounted on foam board
Diptych Mounted on foam and then display board

Paris Film Tryptic

Zine Final

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Zine Final

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Zine One – Final Layout

Zine – Planning

I want to create an A5 zine in a booklet format with a smaller A6 zine inside. I want the zine to explore our receptions of beauty and flow visually throughout the book. I plan to use more unnatural images from the party photoshoot beside my Rinko Kawauchi inspired photographs of nature. I plan on calling this zine ‘Irridiant’ – meaning to emit light as a lot of my photos focused on light. Alongside to smaller zine insert I will also add my cyanotype experiments to help break up the pages and serve as visual and formatting differentiation keeping the zine interesting.

Mimosa’s in Bloom by Rita Costa was an inspiration for this zine as I enjoy her use of negative space to frame her images – the themes behind her images also interest my and I think fit well with my over all project.

Photographic Treatment is a series of 5 photobooks by Laurence Aegerter I like her approach to juxtaposing her images and creating pages spreads that both flow visually and tell a story.

Zine Two – Mini

I made a smaller second zine to fit inside my larger main one This Zine is printed at A6 as opposed to A5 so I can slot it in-between pages, I also plan on adding my Paris film prints and cyanotypes into the pages.

I considered horizontal formatting but decided that it would fit less well in the overall zine.
Smaller zine in centre pages.

Photobook link

Here is my online link to my photobook on Blurb: Elephants Never Forgets

LIGHTFALL – Photobook

Here is a link to my final photobook, Lightfall.

Video Collage – Final

Here is my final short animation film