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| When I first learned that we had to design a photobook I was not that excited. <br />
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| Not because I don't like photobooks but because I had a hard time to see how something physical like a photobook could be useful for my own practice.
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| Ironically, now I feel that the photobook I made in the end was the most meaningful project I made this semester.
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| So I came up with the idea for my photobook when I woke up at 5 AM and I wrote in my phone: Printing on plastic all memories non-linear and intertwined. <br />
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| In my self-directed research I have the potential research question: How can I use a method like infra-red which is a scientific objective method, to portray the unconscious? <br />
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| Over the period of the first semester I build a collection of infra-red images the ones that stood out the most for me were digitally shot with an infra-red filter. <br />
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| A selection of these images ended up in my photobook all printed on plastic overhead sheets. <br />
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| I wanted to use plastic because by doing this all of the images will be exposed through eachother. <br />
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| Similar to the idea of double exposure except that in this case all of the 22 pages are connected and translucent. <br />
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| My aim was to design a photobook that could serve as a script and storyboard. <br />
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| It was important for me to combine my photobook and self-directed research and this photobook is meant to be a starting point for my Eye film. <br />
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| Connecting my images was a great way to reflect on my research and to see them from a different perspective. <br />
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| The images are in a dialogue with eachother, related like memories that are connected. <br />
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| The photobook is not finished and I didn't want it to be finished yet. <br />
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| Preferably the photobook will grow with the ideas for my film, I will for example add the title page when I have decided the title of the film. <br />
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| I would also love to add new images and maybe text that could serve as a script.
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| For now the book exists of images that are printed on plastic sheets bound by screws. <br />
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| So I can easily take the book apart and add new pages. <br />
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| With the book it is necessary that a white page is used since the translucency can make it difficult to see the (overlayed) images.
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| When someone else views the book I would like them to unscrew it and make their own combination of the images. <br />
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| Maybe I chose for this design because I usually want the viewer to have a certain freedom in their perception. <br />
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| It was quite difficult to document the book because of the reflection of the plastic and it just didn't do it justice. <br />
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| So I will add some images that are included in the book on this page. <br />
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| But for the experience of the book you just have to see it in it's physical form.
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| I quite like this idea of not being able to put my book on the web. <br />
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| The book is fragile in it's form and now it is also a bit hidden like our memories and thoughts.
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