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Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning
Buy from Bookshop.org (affiliate link) This is one of Aperture’s ‘Workshop’ series, in which photographers talk about their work as if they were leading a workshop. I don’t have any others in this series, but I do have a couple of other Aperture books, and like those, this is a lovely object: nice paper, great […]
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Printing a photozine
I’ve made a few zines before, mostly for close to zero budget. For this project, I wanted the reproductions of photographs to be good, and also wanted to make a lovely object, so I had to spend some money to get it commercially printed. But printing (even digitally) in small quantities is very expensive, so […]
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Editing, sequencing and layout
After an initial edit of all the photos for the project on the computer, I tried making book dummies (AKA maquettes) to get a feel for how the zine could flow. My default way of working is to think with my hands. So I started by printing off small images of all the photos in […]
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Laser-engraving the covers
I have access to a laser cutter, so my plan was to use coloured paper for the covers and engrave a typographic design. Coloured paper generally lightens when engraved with a laser, giving an effect that is difficult to achieve by any other means. However, getting a good result requires some experimentation, and all lasers […]
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Prototyping a bound booklet
There are loads of good YouTube videos that show you how to make your own saddle-stitched zine. I found these ones to be pretty good, and they covered the two options I was considering for the saddle stitch itself: DIY Staple Saddle Stitch Bookbinding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysUiyjB0jY DIY Saddle Stitch Bookbinding with Thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHkY5jOoqM I made a […]
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Printing test pages and spreads
Adobe InDesign is the standard layout software for printed publications, and has a handy tool to help you test a book layout before going to print: Print Booklet (https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/using/printing-booklets.html) The Print Booklet feature lets you create printer spreads for professional printing. For example, if you’re editing an 8-page booklet, the pages appear in sequential order […]
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Finishing
I’m at the stage of finishing this project. I know from experience that finishing stretches off into the horizon, eventually becoming not finishing. So I was struck by this passage by Richard Misrach on finishing his projects, in the book ‘On Landscape and Meaning‘: I knew the project was coming to an end when I […]
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Public Space
I’ve started collecting photos of things people leave in public spaces. I don’t know what will become of it, if anything, but I want to acknowledge the impetus to record the moment, without needing to have a plan in mind for what I’ll do with it. It’s about finding that balance between risking a banal […]
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Gas Installation Part 3. Regulator and Connections
With the gas tank finally hung under the driver side chassis, and the fill point fitted to the column behind the drivers door, the next job was to connect everything up. Here’s the layout: We originally bought a filter that is supposed to go between the gas tank and the regulator. It screws directly to […]
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2017-12-14: Gas installation part 2
So this post was drafted as we nearly came to the end of fitting the gas tank and bits and pieces. We were waiting on an inspection by a gas safe engineer who pressure tested the system with a small amount of gas before we filled it with gas. Of course there was always the […]
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