I’ve been having such a wonderful time over the past six months making photographic books out of some of my big projects. If I have a number of projects with sufficient images to populate a book I have a plan to make a book. I’m pretty good with InDesign so I figured it would be a really simple thing to make up a bunch of photographic books. With my experience with InDesign over the past twenty years or so, getting the pictures sequenced, placed and text properly inserted and formatted happened just the way I thought it would happen and I was overjoyed at the ease the books were assembled.
Well, it was really easy. Right up to the point it wasn’t.
What got me were the really big questions for the book project; the why and the meaning of the book project. Then everything ground to a halt.
The biggest questions facing a book project are (1) Who is the audience, (2) what do you want to tell them and (3) how are you going to tell them the story. If you start work without answering those questions honestly and completely you will waste a lot of time and effort.
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