#im feeling really emotional about it i booked them in this arvo

[baelavelaryon]

so next month my cats are going to be boarding in a cattery for four whole weeks and I'm being so normal and stable about it

#cytherea.txt #chester's gonna live at my aunt's place too and I'm gonna miss them all so much it's ridiculous 😭😭 #(we have to move out while our house gets fixed up in april which will be good in the end but an absolute nightmare in the meantime) #im feeling really emotional about it i booked them in this arvo

[skinnernegotiatedpractice]

Writing an introduction to a Book

Before being done with this project I needed to write an introduction to the book. I forgot about this if I’m being honest so before I published the book I added another page to the front for the intro and started to look at other book intoductions that I’d seen. 

I would post the intro of Stoke’s book however it’s 4 pages long and doesn’t really say much about the project other than it being abstract art rather than photography. I respect Stoke’s view of his own work but I don’t see my own work in that way so I see little point in using that as inspiration. 

Dan Wood’s Gap in the Hedge does however provide me with some interesting information 

 I mentioned a few times that our projects are quite similar bar the part that he’s travelling via road and I travelled via train. My own project dealing with issues like Brexit and the future of the valleys however I mentioned in the final edit of my book that I didn’t really want to force my viewer to have an opinion on the work before seeing it. I think too often now photography books force you to see work in the way the photographer saw it but that doesn’t fit this project because I have no agenda I just documenting the things i saw and threw them in a book. 

I think in my first attempt at an intro you can see that I’m being quite emotive and detailed about my opinions but actually what I think and feel don’t matter in this project. So after getting it back I considered just presenting the facts without emotion in the introduction and seeing how that looked. 

I also used the Arvo font on Blurb as I felt it looked quite nice for the title of the book in the sky over the houses and looks nice on the page by itself it flows quite nicely. I also decided not to title my introduction pretty much because I didn’t know what to call this intro so untitled was more fitting. I do however think that my font might be a little bit too big after it had been point out to me but I don’t think it’s massive deal in the grand scheme of things just a minor problem. Next time I will put the font size to 12 as suggested.  

This is what I ended up with and I quite like it if im honest. It presents the facts of the region of Wales and why I’m shooting the project but it leaves the conclusion to the viewer rather than the artist. I think this works well for a project in the documentary style as im not presenting facts in my pictures im documenting what i’ve seen and that can be viewed differently. Furthermore I think this intro fits the project and the way I feel about it.