This book was given to me to look at by one of my lecturers, it was a book created by a previous student here at DMU. The book is a collection of images based around returning to the town he was born and brought up in, Norfolk. The images are paired with Poetic prose that discusses the history of the location and talks about its state in the present. The images are all shot on a lomographic camera of some form, and have this feeling of being vintage. The colours are dulled and the way that light looks on these images create an interesting mix. the use of texts makes you re look at the images in a different way. It allows the audience to be drawn into the world created for them by the artist. The surreal texts adds a sense of oddity to some of the images. The title of the book 'suspicions' allows the audience to be skeptical of the realism of the text, and differentiates the opinions on how it should be read.
Examples of the text:
'In the cafe, a customer revealed to the waited that police had blocked the main road.'
'Walking past me in the street, a girl talking on her phone animatedly described that a "lady's leg was hanging off"
Its very much an interesting take on the use of text and the imagery. I stated that i did want to include text somehow into my images but i am still unsure how.
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