Odette England: “Woman Wearing Ring Shields Face from Flash”

The book contains colour as well as black and white images. Some of them are shown extremely zoomed in as a full page or double spread, some of them shown as scans of prints only filling about half of the page. One of the most interesting design choices is her decision of splitting the double spreads and letting them continue further on in the book. This supports the unsettling feeling, which for me personally is created by looking at images of guns. The archival photographs feel intimate and make the problem of violence more urgent and personal. Other photographs can be seen as studies of hand gestures and the gun still-lifes  read like evidence photographs to me. Firstly creating a close proximity between the readers and the book she breaks it up and abruptly creates a sense of coldness and distance.