ritty liu

emotion practice

(analog photography book)

这本摄影集是我近年来对身边人与事物观察的总结，除了照片本身，书籍的装帧也是 围绕“情感练习”这个主题进行诠释的。

内容上: 因为工作，生活与学习的缘故，我每年都要两次往返莱比锡与沈阳。每次在⻜机上我 特别喜欢观察云朵，因为那是与在地面上观察云时完全不同的视⻆。我觉得这个观察 的过程与人类对情感的认知过程很相似，它们是多变和不稳定的，而恰好这也是胶片 拍摄与冲洗的特点…在这本影集中，很多图片被处理成不同的透明度，有些则直接被 印在了硫酸纸上，穿插在看似违和与矛盾的云朵中。书中的照片主人公或场景都是 我日常的经历，在用镜头记录下的同时，我也在想，当时的记录是以怎样的心境与情 感去面对拍摄对象的。在照片与照片中相继出现的云朵仿佛链接着每个场景，使整本 书更加整体，也更具有故事性。

装帧上: 整本书采用了能够180°摊开的胶装，这样的目的是在不破坏书籍整体⻛格的情况下让 读者阅读体验更好。书脊处的荧光橘⻩色是手工涂制的，为了能和书⻚中穿插出现的 riso云朵相呼应，希望让读者在未翻开书的时候就对内容有所好奇与期待。整本书也 根据不同的场景与照片的特点选择了不同的纸张进行印刷，因为每张照片所对应的情 感不同，所以纸张的质感也应该是有所区别的。在某一张riso云朵的背面，我用打字 机打印了书籍的题目emotion practice，算是留给自己与读者的小小惊喜吧。书的封 面emotion practice是镜像的凹陷文字，但是当读者把书翻开，看到的则是正常的 emotion practice，我非常喜欢在书里加一些小机关，希望读者也会享受发现机关的 乐趣。这样一来，整个装订，翻阅的过程在某种意义上来说也算得上是一种情感练 习。

I travel between Leipzig and Shenyang twice a year while I study in Germany. I love to observe clouds every time during the flight. That is a completely different perspective from when observing clouds on the ground. I think this process of observation is very similar to the process of human perception of emotions. They are changeable and unstable, and this happens to be the characteristic of film shooting and processing… In this book, many pictures are processed into different transparency, some are directly printed on the transparent paper, interspersed in the clouds that seem to violate peace and contradiction. The protagonists or scenes of the photos in the book are all my daily experiences. While recording them with the camera, I also think about the mood and emotions of the subjects that were recorded at that time. The clouds that appear one after another in the photos seem to link each scene, making the whole book more integrated and more story-telling.

The whole book adopts a glue binding that can be spread out at 180°. The purpose of this is to make the reader’s reading experience better without destroying the overall style of the book. The fluorescent orange on the spine of the book is painted by hand. In order to echo the risograph clouds are interspersed in the pages of the book. I hope that the readers will be curious and expectant about the content before opening the book. The whole book also chooses different papers for printing according to the characteristics of different scenes and photos. Because each photo corresponds to different emotions, the texture of the paper should also be different. On the back of a certain risograph cloud, I printed the title of the book Emotion Practice with a typewriter, which is a little surprise for myself and readers. The emotion practice on the cover of the book is a mirror image of the concave text, but when the reader opens the book, what they see is a normal emotional practice. I like to add some small surprises in the book and hope that readers will also enjoy the fun of discovering. In this way, the entire binding and flipping process can also be a kind of emotional exercise.