This was a book I made out of my photos just to learn how to use the app and to mess around with pairings of photos. I will NOT be overlaying photos as collage like they are here but I still don’t know the direction to take for my actual book so I figured I’d upload these

So this is my progress thus far. For my project, I am putting together a photo book, similar to a family album. I am showing off different members of my family while incorporating a collage technique. Some of the photos on the bottom are pictures of some Nigerian fabrics my mom and grandma have at home. I want to include some aspects of my heritage in this final project. I am still figuring out other elements to put the collage to gether. I only put snippets of what I have so far, but that’s because I am kind of figuring out what the final product will be as I am going.

I don’t have any images to share yet. Given the nature of my project I am somewhat reliant on others, but I am going to share the outline of some of the images that are in the works right now.

Person 1: She is sitting on the floor surrounded by records

Person 2: Working at a table with a dutch oven, paints, and a sewing machine. She has given herself the title of “The Scrappy Sentimentalist”

Person 3: She holds a bowl of cookie dough that she is making, but her face is also completely covered in cookie dough.

Person 4: He is standing in front his fridge, apron on, spatula and tongs wielded with his arms crossed.

Person 5: She is doing a classic track and field pose.

I am still brainstorming and working with 7 other people on what they would like to do or whether they would like to be a part of the project. I have reached out to a fairly large group because I know some people may not be able to take the photos in time.

I also have been doing quite a lot of research on possible printing services for these cards:

-Nations Photo Lab has a pretty simple “trader card” option with a lot of customizability.

-Topps (the maker of most sold Baseball cards) also has a custom option, that I think could be really interesting to look into. It would be so wild to have actual Topps branded cards for a project like this.

-http://www.custom-tradingcards.com/ is another option

I look forward to hearing what people think or any suggestions!

For my final project, I decided I wanted to begin with photographs from the last year as I am making sense of all of the events that have happened since then. From those moments that I anticipated, to those that were unexpected, these are a few screenshots of the work in progress of my Blurb Photo Book. So far, I have been making sure that the flow of my photos flows to tell my story, and I have tried to stick to what was most relevant at each point in this personal experience. I was able to get into the city this weekend and shoot some more black and white film, so I’ll be excited to mail it in for development and see what I get and how I can incorporate it in my book. I have not decided the colors or inclusion of text, if at all, in the book. Excited to hear your feedback!

I have always enjoyed combining and arranging photos and for my final project I want to combine my enthusiasm with collages and mixed media with my personal photography. I plan to create a magazine type of book with collages of different stages, aspects, objects, people, and ideas that have stemmed from my life during this time. I plan on incorporating screenshots of news headlines, views from my bedroom, spring in Omaha, photos of friends, newspaper articles, and more in pieces that express the divide between chaos and calmness in this time of uncertainty. I think it would be interesting to separate my collages of photographs into “moods” to represent the rapid shifting of moods that this period of isolation has created for me, my family, and the rest of the world and use paint to help me express these ideas as well. Below are just a few pieces of inspiration and digital beginnings of my process.

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I used a film camera and unfortunately, I can’t show my progress because my film is being processed now. My family and I went to Antelope Valley and I captured a lot of photos there. Since I can’t show the photos I took, here are some photos that my mom took. (=