Os días que foron

Final project for Editorial Design: designing a photobook from Jesús García's photographs of his shared artistic life in Ourense.

I wanted the reader to be the protagonist and feel what they felt: discomfort and relief. I translated it into layout: tight margins that close in on the image and build tension; full bleeds and blank pages that open it up and let it breathe. Four sequences move from one state to the other, as those years did.

I chose not to dramatise: the images carry no captions or texts to explain them; whoever looks builds the tension. I picked a matte paper so the eye can rest on the image. The cover cloth leans towards blue, like the landscape the photos cross. The wrapping is one of them: the texture begins before it is opened.