Fine Art Photobooks & Prints

Something to hold, cherish & remember - a timeless heirloom

 Photobooks

What’s the deal with photobooks' - why aren’t you making ‘albums’? ‘Wedding Album’ sounds so much more sophisticated… Albums-shmalbums, that’s what I think.

Yes, Albums and Photobooks at first glance are much the same, however an album is like the one where you’re parent’s have gone on a holiday overseas and Mum get’s back and dumps all of here iPhone photos (including all the accidental selfies) into a book, with no context and slaps a title on the page and it sits on top of the other paperbound holiday books on the coffee table… And don’t get me wrong, I love my mum’s holiday albums, but a photobook is cut from a different cloth - both figuratively and literally.

The term photobook is a more contemporary term, and how it differs to an album is the whole construction of the book. It is enveloped with purpose, thought and actually tells a constructed story - through the process of using photos to make a significant contribution to context, with sequence and placement. Furthermore, the materials used - from the type of paper and it’s thickness, to how it is bound and laid, the texture of the cover; every detail is thought-out, planned and purposeful. All these fine-tuned details craft the story that you want told.

To put things into more tangible terms, think of a photobook as a pizza… mmm, pizza… if you get all the ingredients to make a pizza, starting from scratch - you’ve got the flour, water, salt and oil for the dough, and all the scrumptious toppings (whatever you fancy, just not mushrooms cause barf!), and imagine you put them all into a blender. Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t want pizza like that… to me, this is an album; no thought process or creative context and it’s all whacked altogether in hope it turns out well. You want to construct your pizza with in sequences, starting off with the dough, using caputo flour and the finest olive oil, letting it ferment overnight. Gathering the finest and freshest ingredients, assembling it with care and a thought-out process and putting cheese on first after the tomato paste and not last, because you understand the things on top burn quicker so - you want the cheese to melt, not to blacken and burn. And on the contrary, putting salami on last so it does burn and develop crispy edges. Now tell me, how would you contract your phonebook? In a blender, or with careful construction?

Photobooks - Starting at $1100

The Process

The Power of Pizza

  • Size - I provide two sizes 6”x8” or
    10”x10”

    Type - Cover Material & Cover Engravement.

    Pages - Each photobook comes with a standard 50 pages - 25 page spread.
    Additional pages are $50 per spread (two pages).

  • Design - Spread, photos and extras.

    It’s hard choosing from a gallery of 600+ photos, that’s why I do all the heavy lifting for you. We’ll collaborate together - you can let me know your must have favourite photos and I’ll choose and design the rest.

  • Review - two complimentary changes - I’ll send you a link and you can view exactly how the book is looking and if you’d like anything changed.

  • Just to be clear, we’re talking about a woodfire oven, not a conventional oven, fan forced at 180 degrees! Like your pizza, your photobook is handmade with love and care, crafted in the highest quality pizza oven.

    Now that’s it! As the Italians would say, easy peasy, squeezy lemon! Now sit back and relax - it’ll be in your hands within no time.

Prints

All of my packages come with complimentary five 5x7 fine art prints. These are printed on Ilford Galerie Textured Cotton Rag. It’s a high quality, thick gsm paper and gives you that feeling of opening a Mars Bar back in 2006 and finding “Winner” on the inside rapper, scoring yourself a free mars bar in one out of six bar - tangible bliss.

Fine Art Prints - Starting at $50

Print Shop

You’ve got empty wall space? Oh you better believe that’s a paddlin’.

  • Do you find yourself staring into the abyss at dried paint on an empty wall? Sounds like you’re in need on a fine art print - one from your most memorable day?

    In addition to prints that I give to my couples, I also provide larger fine art prints, perfect for that empty wall.

    The larger print sizes I provide are:

    8x10
    12x18
    A4
    A3

    These are all printed on Ilford Galerie Textured Cotton Rag.