Independent Art and Photography - Norwich Shop Fronts book

After a fantastic couple of workshops with wonderful book designer Anna Fewster, we were challenged to make our own handmade books. I took a bit of inspiration from Edward Ruscha and Bernd and Hilla Becher to make a book about the independent shops and cafes in Norwich. I wanted to photograph them all with exactly the same framing, then arrange them in the book so that comparisons can be made between the shapes of the shop fronts.
I then embossed the cover with a very simple title and hand-stitched the pages together.

So although this is far from perfect, and the prints I used to create the pages are of a low quality, I feel this is definitely something I can improve on. I like the colour scheme, the grey cover reflects the grayscale images.
For me, creating a handmade book would be an interesting and different way to present the images for this project. Also, I feel like they should be kept in a confined order, which I wouldn't be able to control if they were simply presented as a set of prints.
To improve on this first attempt, I would need to make sure the prints are of a higher quality, but are still able to be manipulated within the book. I will also be featuring more images and not only shop fronts. Being handmade and handstiched is the main factor I will be transferring over.