Independent Art and Photography - Mock up

I decided to make a mock up of how I would like my final book to be constructed. I will also need to use this to figure out exactly how to print the final images, and where the image should be placed on the page. The idea for this book is to give a general overview of the city I grew up in. I want it to represent a wide view, using landscapes and views of the whole city, similar to those of Nicholas Nixon. Moving through, the focus will gradually become smaller and smaller, looking at views down streets, individual shop fronts, and then small details such as a piece of graffiti or a shop's notice board. Similar to Edward Ruscha's books, I want each page to be consistent, with the images all being placed in exactly the same area of the page. However, referencing back to some of the famous Japanese photobooks, also want to include a fold out section.

The book will be landscape, with the pages folding up and down as opposed to the usual left to right. The fold out section will include my shopfront images from the previous book, but this time presented in a long, panoramic style landscape, folding out to reveal the shops as if they were all on the same road (another reference to Ruscha).

I want the book to remain a very physical object, and an artefact in itself as opposed to just being a way to showcase the images. I want the viewers to be forced to interact with the object, and be able to spread the book out and look at it, with the middle section acting as a point of interest half way through.

My main challenge will be the printing process. I need to find a high quality paper that is not only able to be folded, but also can be printed double sided so that when I fold it the images will be displayed on both sides of the page. Although ideally I would prefer the book to be printed full bleed, I think I will have to include a white border around all of the images. When creating the fold out section, I will have to use a lap fold - folding a small strip on the side of the images and attaching it to the one next to it. this gives a crisp fold, but does leave a white line where the fold is. To make sure this blends in, all the images will have to have small white borders. Although this is a compromise, I don't think there is any other way of getting a crisp fold when creating the fold-out section. 

I shot most of the images this past week whilst back at home, mostly early in the morning to as to avoid including any people, which was a key factor for me when shooting in this style. The images are about the buildings and the construction of the place, not its residents. I will be scanning the images from the 3 films I shot in Norwich this week and then hopefully printing them digitally once I have found a solution to my printing problems!