Final Layout

This is my final layout for my magazine from all of my different photoshoots.

This is my front and back cover of my magazine and I chose this image as the front cover because its strong and bold and looks powerful for the front cover.

This is my Index page for my magazine, where I have described my three photoshoots and what era of fashion they are and the location they were taken at.

Evaluation

Overall I’m very pleased with how my photobook turned out and I think the placement of all the images makes them all stand out and compliment each other, making the images loom really strong. I also put some of my best images on double page spreads to showcase them in the magazine.

Philippe Gerlach is the photographer I am going to take inspiration from when creating photos for my magazine as he created a magazine like image in his involvement in ‘how much more would you need?’. I will use the same concept as him by layering clothing to look dramatic and over the top. I am planning to not include any writing within my magazine however I will include some on the front cover. I don’t want to include any inside it as I want the main focus to be on my images which I have created.

Presentation 1: x1 A4 image, x2 A5 images – photos mounted on foam board, which will be mounted on a black background.

Presentation 2: x1 A3 image – photo mounted on foam board, which will be mounted on a black background.

Presentation 3: x1 A3 image – photo mounted on foam board.

Presentation 4: x1 A3 image – photo mounted on foam board.

First gallery:

Second gallery:

Third gallery:

Fourth gallery:

Concept

The concept for my photobook is to do a magazine in a similar style to how David Sims did advertising photos for the the Bazaar magazine and for other famous brands.

Narrative

The narrative of my photobook is to combine historic tourist attractions in jersey with three eras of fashion, and showcase this within my book. The three eras of fashion I have done is 70’s, 80’s and modern day fashion.

Design

The design of my photobook is suppose to look like a fashion magazine from Vogue or from Bazar. I have added a large title and a full page image to the front cover to make the magazine look aesthetic and interesting as soon as you look at it.

I have also changed the colour of the title to a dark reddish colour to contrast against the dark green colour of the spine and so that it also stands out against the dark background of the image on the front cover.

I create some virtual galleries using Photoshop in order to document some of my best images. I added a drop shadow to each of the images so that they would appear to be hanging off the wall instead of looking flat.

Gallery 1:

These two images have clear reference to Hannah Altman’s ‘And Everything Nice’ through its use of glitter to represent the pain that the pressures of the beauty standard apply to women and girls across the world. I feel that these two images have specifically been successful because of the short depth of field that I have applied, differing my work from Altman’s, as it hones in the viewers focus onto the real concept behind the image instead of appearing to just be revolved around beauty itself rather than the actual pressures. I also feel that these images are clear references to Altman’s work because of the randomised pattern of the glitter as I tapped it onto these objects using a brush. This makes it look more natural like Altman’s work, as if the viewer wouldn’t feel suspicious of this looking strange or out of place. However, I did use different objects to what Altman used such as a razor because this didn’t require too much setting up, meaning that my images would have looked too similar otherwise.

These two images share similar components in their aesthetic and composition. Here, I have shot from an angle horizontal to both of the objects to make the perspective more dynamic rather than risking the images employing the ‘dean-pan’ aesthetic, for example, as I want this portion of my study to be specific and stern rather than more documentary-style. Additionally, both of the images have echoes of each other, while the glitter is an obvious link between not just these images but the entire photoshoot, but they both share the main colour of white in the composition whilst using a relatively low-exposure to ensure that the viewer doesn’t think that the images have an alternative, happier meaning.

Gallery 2:

For this gallery, I created a grid of four images of the same subject looking in different directions as I think that this works very nicely, as if each image contains an individual person looking at the others. This was inspired by Hannah Altman again from her self-portrait with glitter underneath her eyes, where the glitter is delicately placed in representation of tears from trying to fit into the beauty standard.

As this image from her work is quite notable in being one of the more popular images from her project, my images differ from the nature of the glitter. In Altman’s image, the glitter is cautiously placed however I have overexaggerated the glitter on my subject as I feel that it makes her show more anguish as its spread out carelessly, as if she has gripped her face out of despair. Also, Altman’s images employ natural lighting, however I wanted to juxtapose the colour of the blue glitter (being able to represent the stereotype that only boys should wear blue) with a red to symbolise anger from the subject towards the issues that I am targeting. This is why I used the flash on the camera, however I covered it with my hand in order to make her face red without editing to look more truthful, and also to create this ghostly effect in the background that creeps over the side of her face.

Whilst Altman appears to have meant for this image to be interpreted as distress over the beauty standard, I feel that my work is more applicable to the inverse of the male gaze, where my subject is taking back this term and coining it as her own to reduce the discomfort she feels and sending it back to these people. I think that this is a powerful extension of Altman’s work as her eyes dart around in an intimidating way, rather than being intimidated.

Gallery 3:

This was really helpful as it allowed me to begin thinking about how I want my prints to be laid out when I mount them up. This also means that I can start thinking about my sequencing in my photobook as I can look at which images compliment each other and the ones that don’t have any relation to each other.

I specifically like my third gallery because I feel that the narrative is linked quite smoothly as each image has a high relevance to feminism. I also really like the way I have laid this out because each image has an aspect of the last within it, for example shades of red become echoed as well as the introduction of new tones which enriches the flow of them too. The third image within the gallery is inspired by Barbara Kruger, where I have written similar phrases to her ironic insults towards magazine and media outlets pushing the beauty standard. Whilst I have created edits similar to her on Photoshop, I really like this method as it is a more direct approach, blocking a girls negative thoughts about her reflection, whilst also being more modern and relative to society now as Kruger’s work was heavily influenced by the 80s beauty standard and ideologies about women. By doing this, I can still make a greater reference to Kruger’s work whilst not being too explicit.

Evaluation

Overall, I feel that my study into Feminism in relation to the theme of Union has been highly successful and I feel that I have create a clear link between the two through adding a personal touch through my experimentation, being a generational connection between the women in my family, in order to show that this movement has real-life relevancy and the issues that it hones in on don’t have individual effects but collectively impact society on a whole.

Within this investigation, I have been extremely experimental due to one of my artist inspirations being Barbara Kruger. At the beginning, I shot images of Greek statues and then developed this into using archived images of myself when I was younger, then leading this into my wider family members such as my gran and my mum. This allowed me to really develop my ideas in a structured way as in the beginning, my work was very similar to Kruger’s in terms of aesthetic. However, I wanted to make it more personal and more of a reference rather than a similar image with text as Kruger’s work is notorious for using these direct statements with bold red text. As my ideas began to grow, I began to write accusatory and almost angry statements on mirrors using red lipstick in capitals, using some of Kruger’s phrases whilst using this to come up with my own. I think this was very effective because it allowed me to move away from the typical black and white grainy images that I had been producing and create something more relevant to modern society, as the work that I found myself inspired by was revolved around the beauty standards of the 80s whereas it has changed now. This led me to be able to create some experimental pieces of Photoshop that I really liked, however I didn’t end up using them all as they didn’t fit properly with the sequence or the overall tone of the book.

However, I think that I could’ve pushed this even further into the modern beauty standards that we uphold now and target the aesthetics of magazines and media put into circulation. I had planned to try and create some experiments that looked into how social media is used to further perpetuate unrealistic goals for women, for example looking into how Instagram is a place filled with photoshopped images that can’t be distinguished amongst the unedited ones. However, I couldn’t really come up with any ideas on how to execute this, so if I carried this out again I would really like to be able to create a more socially relevant interpretation of Kruger’s work to today’s standards.

With my investigation into Hannah Altman’s work, I feel that I was really able to develop my ideas and take some really creative images. I began by creating similar images to Altman’s ‘And Everything Nice’ where I tapped blue glitter onto different cosmetic tools such as tweezers or eyelash curlers, trying to find other tools that she had not incorporated into this body of work. These images were really successful where I was able to use a short depth of field to make the viewer solely focus on the item that I had manipulated and how the glitter was representing the pain of conforming to these set standards. However, I feel that I could have made these images more interesting, for example using different colours of glitter or I could have extended this into shooting a subject applying a cosmetic product that had been replaced with glitter.

However, this enabled me to start thinking about other ways I could add glitter into my images and I actually was inspired by the way Kruger uses text, which is why I then began changing the name of magazines using glitter letter stickers and editing the real name from the background. I wanted to do this to show the true intentions behind these magazines underneath the actual cover name. This then led me to start drawing on the models on the front covers and creating plastic surgery markings. I was really happy with this idea and found it to be very interesting as my intention was to act as if I was taking away all of the airbrush and filters to show the viewer how unobtainable it is to reach these standards even though they appear real. However, if I repeated this I would incorporate generative Ai into this to try and get a digitised look as I feel that this may have looked better in comparison to pen on the magazine.

Whilst I am really happy with my outcomes, if I repeated this topic I would definitely include more portraiture into my work as I feel that I could have gotten more experimental and showed physical union rather than it being more symbolic. However, I feel that I have done this in a very subjective way and I think that the images are still open to interpretation and can evoke strong emotion in the viewer due to its theme. I would also have liked to include some landscape images that could have symbolised anger and distress as this is such a sensitive topic, for example a thunderstorm could show rage in a broader way.

I wanted to create a photobook for my project revolved around Feminism as this allows the viewer to physically manoeuvre the images themselves instead of just looking at the visual elements. My book I produced during my personal study about my brother was quite successful so I wanted to create one again, as both of these topics are quite important matters which I feel makes a photobook more appropriate as it seems to be more professional-looking in my opinion.

The narrative and concept:

My photobook revolves around the topic of Feminism and the modern issues we have that this movement tries to tackle in society. The theme of my images is predominantly looking into eating disorders, spiking, the pressures of the beauty standard, media and magazine aesthetics and trying to capture the emotions that these types of issues make young girls and women feel. This leads my images to cross over between subjective and objective, as emotion is not a tangible thing and can be implied through exposure levels for example, however I have still photographed explicit things that directly communicate the message to the viewer.

I have also manipulated and experimented with many archived images that I took from my mum and my gran to show a generational connection in these issues and the change in attitudes towards women from when my gran was a teenager, to my mum, to me.

I did this using Blurb in Lightroom, where I initially flagged all of my best images so that it would be easier for me to see my images rather than just having to look through all of them when designing the layout. I then created a saved book so that I could keep this in my Smart Collections to make it more accessible.

I decided to go with a standard portrait book because most of my images are vertical, however I am still able to incorporate my horizontal images as double-page spreads as these are some of my best images so a portrait book allows me to do that easier.

I created my first initial layout before thinking of my front cover or the title as I felt it would be easier to draw this together once I sequenced my images in order to ensure the narrative could be conveyed clearly and effectively. I wanted to be very cautious with my placement of images as this movement covers a lot of heavy topics that have to be represented in a delicate way to suit the theme.

I decided to use a black background on all of my pages as many of my images are inspired by the work of Barbara Kruger, meaning that I can enhance the shade of red that I have replicated to make my images stand out more. As well as this, I find it to be more relevant to the concept of my photobook than white pages for example, as the colour black has negative connotations. This allows me to reinforce the negative meaning behind my images and I can make sure the viewer doesn’t interpret my images in an irrelevant way.

I didn’t want to add any text to the photobook itself, contrasting my last, because many of the images have writing on them already so I didn’t want to drive the viewer’s attention away from this. Additionally, I wanted my images to stand alone and speak for themselves, specifically the images where I have employed a short depth of field or soft focus as I think that this is key in representing how delicate each of these sub-themes are within Feminism.

I decided I was going to make this as a hardcover photobook because I selected this for my last photobook and I really liked the overall aesthetic of it. Additionally, when I was researching different photobooks to deconstruct I found I generally preferred those with a hardcover, for example Rahim Fortune’s I can’t stand to see you cry. I also decided to leave a few blank pages in my photobook to create a serious tone around some of the images as they stand by themselves, making them looking more ominous whilst suggesting there is a deeper meaning.

Many of my Barbara Kruger inspired archived images had to be reduced in size due to the resolution varying as these images were already quite old from childhood and had a large amount of editing with the grain feature on Lightroom in order to obtain that ‘hardened’ and almost vintage look that Kruger gave her images. However, this worked quite well in the end as it allowed me to just use them as featuring images, with them having writing on anyway to ensure that the viewer still remained engaged. I had to keep these images small so that the resolution would remain above 120ppi.

The layout that I typically used for my images were full-bleed pages, whether that may be single or double, because I think that this means the viewer cannot become distracted by the aesthetic of the book itself, but instead the composition of the image as there is nowhere else to look. However, I didn’t want to just do this as it would make the design quite boring, so I played around with many different page layouts as well as swapping around some of the pages with each other to make sure the sequence ran smoothly.

For example, I really liked this as one of my first few pages as it is really unique and uses 6 different images at varying sizes. I used 6 similar images to represent the inverse male gaze, where instead my subject darts her eyes around different directions on the page as if she is searching for her place in society. This was a set of images inspired by Hannah Altman’s And Everything Nice, replicating the glitter under her eyes in representation of tears.

Front and back cover:

I used all of the images I liked inside the photobook so I decided to go back through my photoshoots and try to see which images would be suitable. I specifically went through my fourth photoshoot where I digitised archived images and belongings that were from my mum or gran so I felt that this would give me an opportunity to use them.

My initial choice was to use these two images, the left being one of my experimentations (blurring out the faces of myself, my mum and my gran on our passports in Photoshop and then layering them to show that this is an issue that is faced by all women) and the right being an image of my mum looking after me when I was younger. I chose this image as both me and my mum are solely wearing pink which is a colour commonly associated with femininity, as well as the image showing a traditional stereotype of a mother looking after a baby.

However, I felt that this looked too much as if the narrative was going to be an internal reflection rather than an exploration of this movement.

I decided to settle on this one as I like how the back cover has wiped the lipstick away, signalling that the book is complete and has finished. I made the spine of the book remain black and played around with different fonts and titles. Because there is quite a low tone and exposure in thee two images, I feel that this makes the book seem more ominous as the phrase ‘girlhood’ connotes ideas of love and friendship, whilst the background contradicts and juxtaposes this. I used the title girlhood in an ironic way for this reason. I put the title quite big and in bold using the font Copperplate Gothic Light which I think has tied together well with the black spine of the book as it keeps the composition dark and mysterious.

Using photoshop to design front covers-

Version 1:

Version 2:

Version 3:

Overall:

The front cover is important as magazines are always the first impression. I want my front cover to have the two of us included. This is because it links to the theme of union and tells the viewers immediately what my magazine is about. Not only this but it seems more powerful, and fits into the plural phrase of ‘ women’ for my title. I wanted my title to be clear and simple expressing what my book is about. I had many ideas such as – ‘Power in Heels’, ‘The Gaze Reversed’ etc. However, I liked how mine was simple yet straight forward and involved my project surrounding the main stream media and the shift women faced. I wanted my font to be rather feminine and I knew I wanted the word ‘ women’ to be in pink as it would make it stand out vibrantly and straight away express that my book is surrounding the theme of femininity. My favourite experimented version would be the first one as it is my favourite image and the font goes seamlessly behind the subject.

I wanted the word evolution to be bold and noticeable, but the font keeping it clear and eye catching. The font being slightly slanted and going behind the subject adds a little edge to it and professionalism. For the ‘ Of’ and ‘ In Media’ I added a drop shadow to make it look 3D. This is beneficial as inside my book, obtains 3d allusions linking to Yayoi. Therefore it contains a successful link seamlessly. Lastly, I will change this image to be my front cover as it looks rather professional and I like the other effects such as the drop shadows and strokes etc because you cannot do that on Lightroom.

Final Outcome-

Final Evaluation –

Overall, I find that my final outcomes, where successful In both creating something new and alternative yet sticking within the theme of ‘Union’. With the visual influences from both my artist studies being incorporated I feel as if I have expanded from their original intentions and have created multiple photoshops that adapted from their styles and applied them to the subjects of my project: Fashion, youth culture and identity. Being able to produce a variety of images within these photoshoots, I find I have achieved the diversity of content amongst my pages within my magazine which I had set out for. With each shoot, giving me an idea for another, I believe that when coming up with how I wanted an image to look in my head, I was able to go out and do it.

For my impressionist Images, I believe I had created outcomes that reflected Kyohyun Nam’s work by applying not only his technical element of how he took his images, but also his conceptual focus of having either someone or something as the subject. With this image I made, for example, I attempted to merge these two by combining the subjects to create an interesting outcome.

My Image.

Kyohyun Nam’s work – 2 subject focuses.

To Improve however, I would have produced more Images that made use of the impressionist style with the subjects being that of the youth. Needing lots of people to create variety between photos however would be difficult which is why I resorted to random members of the public.

For my Social-realist Images, I feel as If I was able to replicate Robert LeBlanc’s technical elements of using subtle motion-blur in a documentary manor to produce a similar outcome. With LeBlanc’s work focusing more on his travel, my conceptual basis was instead focused on the travel of others. Comparisons that can be drawn however is through the visual elements between the images. By converting my images into black and white, this was to direct attention to the image content rather than its colour. LeBlanc makes use of this within his series ‘Tin Lizards’ where a focus is placed on the locations within the picture. It is from this, I was inspired to try and attempt to replicate his style of images.

My Images.

LeBlanc’s work.

Like with the impressionist images, a difference I would have made would be to have a larger variety of images that focused more on youth culture through this style. With other social-realist Images I made using colour, a change I could make would be to incorporate more of a visual influence from LeBlanc by making them black and white.

From the magazines I looked at as my influences I find I have taken visual influence from their construction to produce pages that reflect their design. With WIP and Skate magazine focusing on the promotion of unity between the cultures of fashion, music and identity, these where large points of contextual influence when creating my magazine. WIP magazine took particular influence, conceptually, which I believe I have replicated well. With their magazine uniting people through various art mediums and interests – such as fashion, art, photography and music – I applied this when coming up with the idea for my project. My using it as my basis of what I wanted to centre my project to be about, I believe it made me realise the intentions behind my work and what I strived to create.

My front cover.

WIP front cover.

Further reference within my work, which I believe helped me understand my intentions and produce a successful outcome is through the influence of my study into collaging and montaging. With my pages being influenced from the fashion magazines, where pages all related to focus of usually one thing – such as shoes, clothes, or the brand, they replicated the effects of producing a montage where the images related to each other. An example of this being a Nike ad I took inspiration on for page design, where multiple images where used in it, centred around the product. For my project I attempted to replicate this through producing ‘ads’ of my own, arranging my images into montages on a page.

My Ads.

The Nike Ad.

Overall, I find I was successful in replicating the montaged style of pages within my work however more inclusion of collaging would be a change I would have made when designing the pages.

Further influence from collaging and montaging I took came from when producing art pages for the end segment of my book. Inspired by the artists of Stezaker, Marclay and Milach, I attempted to create an image that showed inspiration from their style of work. I think I was successful in making an outcome that showed influence from them, however a improvement would be to have created more images like it, as much of the magazine is focused more-so on images inspired from impressionism and social realism.

My Image.

Stezaker’s, Marclay’s and Milach’s work.

In conclusion, I believe I have produced successful outcomes for my project. With many references to my artist inspirations through the key elements of the visual, technical, contextual and conceptual appearances of my work, I find I can show direct links to my inspiration. I also find that I am confident with what I have created and have realised the intentions I wanted to create behind my work such as with how I presented the theme of union through the subjects of fashion, youth culture and identity.

When I first go onto the book side, I have to take some time to see al my images and embrace how I want them placed. Its quite overwhelming at first.

I started by making all the pages black, not definite to keep it like this but I did do black backgrounds for my last book and really liked the outcome, and because I have majority black and white images that are dark and sad in a way the black pages represent that better.

I like to leave the first two pages blank, page three I plan on maybe writing a poem, even maybe joyful about love or as if the beginning of the story which this is.

I am considering and trying out this as my first image, the flower is bright and full of life, symbolising that romance is not dead yet, which helps bring in my symbolism, it also shows the start of life, and romance being beautiful, I moved it around so the flower was centre and made it full bleed but it is a black background image anyway.

I firstly laid out these two images together, I’m not sure I like them together, I wanted to show happy love at first and as I go throughout my book I show it dying but, I just think these images look a bit clunky together and don’t love them, but just for the minute I am going to leave them there.

I decided to change how I was going to start the images, and started with doing the comparisons because those are photos I’m sure of and sure on how I will present them.

This is my second comparison photo, so still doing the comparison ones first and will slowly work around those pages, to decide on which ones will go first and which ones will go after, or go in at all.

This page will have a comparison photo with it but I don’t have it saved at the moment, so its going blank, I am going to do this with a few other pages that I don’t have the comparison photo with yet.

Then I wanted to show slowly more ways in that social media had ruined romance, and used this photo as a full bleed along these pages, to show no one living in the moment.

I continued it on to these pages where I try to tell a story of someone seeing a couple being cute on social media and wants to be like that, not 100% certain this will be the final layout but this is what this blog is for to experiment on how i want it to look.

I then tried this way for a bit more symmetry and sequence in my book, but still not convinced.

After all the comparison photos because I was certain on how I wanted them I added in this photo which is the same as page 4 and 5 to continue the sequence and story telling as this flower is a little more dead and it shows romance dying.

Then I moved this page after it.

Then I had this image which I used as a full bleed image, and then down the middle is between them both almost as if they are being split apart from the nature and each other due to phones.

Then i had this photo all on its own to show an older relationship of street photography.

Not sure about this page and think it might be random on where it is places but I am just trying to make pages I like then hopefully find some sort of order onto them when they are done or keep them how they are.

Dying flower even more dying as we continue throughout the book.

so I am almost completely finished with my book, I rearranged the order there are just a few things I cant decide.

I cant decide my front and back cover and might just have to plain with the title and my name, I also cant decide a title and need to decide that.

Next is these pages where I am planning on having a poem or few sentences that are about my book, and might continue that throughout the book.

Then I start my book, with a very beautiful alive flower, to dip into my symbolism and represent love being alive and beautiful

After that I move onto my first comparison photo, of love year ago, where are a couple are holding hands and looking at each other with love, when the photo next to it is love in the 21st century where they are on their phones with headphones on. not talking to each other but it is clear they are a couple holding hands.

Then we have the second comparison, again the first image, in a car kissing lying on one another, clearly in love as known in movies, what was dreamed of, because when people look back into the 80’s and older, they think of drive in movies and kissing in a car, and in todays world, we think the same thing but going in cars isn’t as romantic as was pictured.

After that I added in a new image, that shows a couple in love and cuddling, to show that some love is still alive and to break the comparisons up.

Then it is a photo of someone on their phone, over on the other side, to add a sort of symmetry and sequence into the book, this shows that their is love in the page before but here comes the social media that is known to be ruining romance slowly.

Then I return back to my comparisons, again where instead of the couple speaking with each other they are on their phones, not really in each other presence like we should be.

Continue on to another comparison, which I do like but it bothers me that you cant really see the carving in my photo. in this one it shows that they only did the couple thing of carving their names into a tree to post it so everyone thinks their couple is cute.

To continue on the sequence of my book, I have another coupley image on the left side, after two comparisons.

Then on the other side, a man walking on his phone, oblivious to what is going on, unaware of the romance that could find him, maybe thinking that all the couples he sees on social media is something he wishes he had. And it is another image of someone on their phone after a romantic picture to demonstrate more that social media is slowly taking over.

then I go onto another comparison, and continue that symbolism, and sequence throughout.

Then to have it continue even more like a story and show that romance is dying, I have the same flower once again but it is more deceased and lifeless.

Then I move onto these pages where they tell a story within them selves and have their own symmetry of what’s going on, they tell the story, of the girl seeing a couple online being cute, and likes the idea, is jealous that her relationship isn’t the same, so decides to show her boyfriend and create the same image to post online.

Then back to the overall symmetry of the book we have this image on the left side, as the previous two have been of them being coupley and cute, but this shows that they are now more infected by social media then they where before, they are still holding hands and being cute but they are more involved in their phones.

Then we have another street photography photo of someone on their phones, but this one is even more social media based, and showing the infection of phones even more to represent how it is getting worse as he is carrying two phones.

Then I have this image, which I really liked, and always wanted to be in it especially as a full bleed image, not only do I like that it represents the couple not appreciating being their with each other looking at the gorgeous view but it also shows them taking photos to post of social media, proving that social media is fake, and taking over, but I have also placed it in a way that the image will be split in half but the fold of the pages breaking up the couple so that they have a split between them, showing that the social media is taking them away from each other without even realising it.

then I have this image, which I don’t know if I will defiantly keep here, but I really like it and I was tempted to have to has my front and back cover but it didn’t spread across the page or look right. so I moved it into my book but this here is is randomly placed.

Then I have this image, which I also don’t know if I love and will keep there.

Then I move onto these pages, which show the guy sitting alone on his phone and that he was really look at a dating app, which shows that he believes he needs a relationship due to social media and what he sees around him and he ends up using social media to find it, and dating apps are known for being creepy, and fake and unreliable.

Then I have this image of the same happy couple shown before, now not so happy, as she is on her phone and caring about social media or sat looking for whatever not involving herself with her partner, and the partner is now jealous and paranoid looking over at her phone.

Then I have the final photo, of the flower we began with now dead and destroyed, like romance, on the right page opposite to the first to show that we are ending the story.

And that is my book layout plan as of now.

Then I started planning my front page and title, for the title I decided between ‘digital intimacy, real distance’ or ‘disconnected’ and decided that disconnected sounded a lot better, so that was going to be my title.

This was the first look, but I don’t like it because it looks boring.

Then I changed it to have these two images here but separated by the spine so that it breaks them apart as they are right next to each other by miles apart.

Then finally I added in a little poem to begin my book. slightly explaining but in a symbolic poetic affective way. I might add more poems throughout, not sure.