THE PHOTO BOOK

Now for me theres a little story behind this one. I got this book when I was in year 10 at school, so whats that about 14 years old. I won the maths effort prize, as with all my prizes unless they where for art it was always effort, I could ent really get anything better for maths considering I was in set 5! Right well anyway as I won this prize I got money to spend on a book of my choice, now I m pretty sure they wanted me to get some maths involved book to maybe get me a bit better as I am truely awful at maths, but instead I bought this, best choice I ever made....I love this book, it has some fasinating photography in it and it never gets boring to look at.

This book contains images from David Bailey to Eadweard Mybridge. As the famous saying says 'A photo says 1000 words.' This book proves this. Each and every one of the photographs in this book tells more than 1000 words, each one has its own story behind, wether that be a simple everyday story or one that effects on a much larger scale.

These book demonstrates how photography can simply demonstate every day lifes and capture a moment that can never be captured again. I shows how images can provoke such emotions within people, and intamicy with the viewer. I also allowed me to learn about many of the photographers out there.

If you want a book full of fantastic images this is a book to get. It shows a vast amount of photographers involving some of their best work.

ESCAPE - Carolyn Jessop

While I was travelling round Mexico this is the book that I read. I always find it quite hard to get into a book but this one gave a gripping story which gave a true insight into 

the harrowing life of Carolyn Jessop.

Carolyn Jessop is born into this Cult which controls her life and gets more and more corrupt as time goes on. She is involved into an extreme polygamist cult called the FLDS. For me this book surprised me as you don't believe that in such recent times and still today, that people actually live like this. It makes you treasure your freedom. 

It shows underage marriage, rape, abuse, all because of a brain - washing cult. It makes you understand and feel for these people as although they might want to escape it is much harder than you may think. 

Carolyn was married off at the age of 18 to a 50 year old man who already had 6 wives and in 15 years she had 8 children with him. 

This book gives you a real life experience into a hideous cult which controls and brainwashes many peoples lives. It defiantly broadens your mind on such cults and gives you an in depth 1st hand experience of it.