Marieke / Design Photobook

When I first learned that we had to design a photobook I was not that excited.
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.

Ironically, now I feel that the photobook I made in the end was the most meaningful project I made this semester.

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.
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?

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.
A selection of these images ended up in my photobook all printed on plastic overhead sheets.

I wanted to use plastic because by doing this all of the images will be exposed through eachother.
Similar to the idea of double exposure except that in this case all of the 22 pages are connected and translucent.

My aim was to design a photobook that could serve as a script and storyboard.
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.

Connecting my images was a great way to reflect on my research and to see them from a different perspective.
The images are in a dialogue with eachother, related like memories that are connected.

The photobook is not finished and I didn't want it to be finished yet.
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. I would also love to add new images and maybe text that could serve as a script.

For now the book exists of images that are printed on plastic sheets bound by screws. So I can easily take the book apart and add new pages. With the book it is necessary that a white page is used since the translucency can make it difficult to see the images.