Photo Essay

Built for photographers and documentarians. Full-bleed visual pages alternate with short written passages, so a body of images reads as an argument rather than a gallery. Swap in your own photographs and rewrite the captions.

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"Off Season" — 8 pages, written and laid out:

Off Season
Why November
Opening frame — set the tone before any words arrive
The pier, closed. Third week of November.
A town in its off season is not a town waiting. It is a town at work.
Boats up on blocks behind the harbour wall
The People Who Stay
Closing frame

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