Publications
Throughout my time as a graphic designer and photographer I have always loved giving my photography a physical home rather than just being stored digitally, posted on instgram then forgotten about. I was introduced to zine making a few years ago now and am always making new editions. I like to be as inventive as I can with my physical publications with intricate folding and binding techniques so as when you pick it up theres an immediate ‘wow’ factor to it, encouraging people to read on.
Below is a few of the publications I have created some for university projects and others personal:
The Coffee Table Coffee Table Book
This publication was a documentary of the changes on my flats coffee table, I took a film photo from the same spot once per day for around 3 weeks at varying times of the day, the result showed just how chaotic the table was constantly, for a bit of contrast with type I placed the title of the items on the page opposite to the correspondiong position of the items. As a challenge I decided to make the netire project through analogue processes, the photos were printed in the darkroom and the type was made using an embossing label maker, I opted for a concertina fold and a tape binding.
50/50 - Edition 1
50/50 was my response to a project at university called ‘numbered edition’ where each class member was given a number and told to design a book with the only restraint being around your given number.
My interpretation of this was to shoot photos only at 50mm focal length and they all had to be able to be split down the middle ‘50/50’, whilst shooting the photos I had to create an imaginary line down the middle knowing the book was going to be done in a french fold binding to really sell the 50/50 interpretation.
Collaborative Zine Project - Edition 1
An on-going project where in each edition I meet up with a fellow photographer and we write our own photo brief, head to a location and shoot 1 roll of film each. In this edition we set ourself the brief of a photo relay, every 5 minutes each photographer would have to take a shot with a 2.5 minute stagger between us, the purpose of this was to be more spontaneous in our shooting and a lot less precious with our film. The result was a documentitive book of our Journey along the Porlethen cliffs with my typography here being written on a typewriter as a timestamp of each shot.
50/50 - Edition 2
After my first edition of 50/50 I had become accustomed to shooting much of my photos in that same style, creating this imaginary line that can split each shot into 2, both times I have created handmade copies of these to sell at markets they have sold out so I plan to keep making editions of these as I go on.