I've been spending some time reviewing, and in some cases re-editing photographs from past trips. I'm putting together some photobooks, one per destination, that combines my images with those taken by my partner. These books are just for us, as memory keepers for our travels.
Adding some distance between shooting your images, and reviewing them, can be enlightening. It reminds me of the gap between shooting film, processing it, and then printing the images. Days, weeks, months or even years might go past as you forget, or temporarily misplace, a roll or two. You gain some time, and some objectivity.
Your sense of what’s important changes, do you really need to have a chronological day-by-day, sight-by-sight diary of your trip, or can you play with alternate narratives?
I’m using my fav drag-and-drop photobook builder for this project, Artifact Uprising, because I dig their environmentally responsible production and 100% recycled paper stock. Not an ad, I just really like them and first printed through them way back in 2003.
Sneak peek of the first two covers
Cloth-covered hardcover books with the partial book jacket. I’ve picked the fabric colour to match with our experience of the colour of the landscapes we visited. Hong Kong was pastel pink buildings everywhere. Seoul in the spring was a deep green against the bare earth. These are slow projects, but I’m enjoying reliving our past experiences with new eyes.
