Today I took part in a book making workshop. The workshop was based around creating my own photo book using hand made methods. Before I made my own book I was shown multiple examples of other artists photo books. Some of these photo books included; Twenty six Gasoline stations by Edward Ruscha and Sleeping By the Mississippi by Alec Soth. Looking at the artist photo books helped me gauge a better understanding of how to effectively produce and layout a book. Being shown a range of different layouts gave me inspiration for my own final piece.

The second half of the workshop was all about making our own photo book. I made a zine like photo book which could be viewed as a book or folded out as a flowing series of photographs. The book was made using paper and glue. For the first step I measured out the paper as instructed. the idea was to create an outside cover and spine for the booklet. After measuring out the paper and cutting it out, I then moved on to the pages of the booklet. Once again I followed the measurements via the instruction manual, after to making thew correct measurements and cuts I then began to assemble my booklet.

I assembled the pages so their appearance was similar to an accordion. By glueing the edges of the paper together gave the effect I needed for the booklet. I then folded the coverer and spine I prepared earlier, into the pages I had made. This style of photo book was really easy to make. Using this style of layout for my final piece would be a bonus because of how cheap and easy the booklet is to produce. This form of photo book would be useful as an information booklet about my final piece. I do not think I will display my final piece in this format as I plan to work with video, however this form of booklet would be useful to store information about my project if I choose to shown it in the exposure unit.