Using Printed Photo Books to Show Collaboration
While photography is often a solitary profession, there are going to be times when you collaborate. When you do, you’ll quickly discover that sometimes - just sometimes - two sets of eyes are better than one. And, when that happens, you’ll be glad that you know about publishing with printed photo books.
(source)“Sometimes when you’ve got two photographers working together, it’s hard for one to be a photographer and one to be an assistant, so you have two photographers.”
When you have two cameras present, you have more than just two pairs of eyes and two camera lenses - you have two completely unique visions of a moment in time. This creates and opportunity to use printed photo books to show and explore the reasons why people see things so differently.
You can document collaboration - the moments when it worked and those times when it hasn’t come out exactly as either of you planned. Both of these are valuable opportunities - tools for learning, moments that focus on the unexpected. In your photo book you can include:
- shots that one photographer stages and the other shot
- two shots of the same moment side by side
- a hybrid shot where the two photos are digitally entered into one
- notes about the experience
- anything else that you feel needs to be there
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