In June when we first moved to Philadelphia I responded to a craigslist post about photographing at a place called The Provenance. I was really interested in the job because of what they do. They are basically a source for historic architectural salvage items. So they go salvage awesome architectural item from old houses or places that were torn down. It is really interesting. I would recommend checking them out! Their website is:
http://www.phillyprovenance.com
http://www.phillyprovenance.com
Anyways Nova, a woman who works there, emailed me back and was really interested in my book work. So I met with her and we came up with an idea for a guest book so that the people who come into the place can leave their information, questions or even things they would love to see Provenance find for them. I was excited because Nova is all about re purposing materials. We walked all around the warehouse and found a few things she wanted to use and ended up with this really old pull down map that had pretty bad water stains. It was great.
So we talked about ideas and this is what we came up with!
We also tried using just brown paper on the inside cover and also the map as seen above.
Let me know what you think! And if anyone has any book ideas I am up for anything! Contact me if you would like to work on a project together.
