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I dig the 24-25 spread. This tells way more about the region than the typical Maligne Lake or Athabasca Falls photo.
The ender photo falls gets the same comments I had about the intro photo. It falls flat, and my last memory of the book is a snapshot of someone's back in the woods. Not too memorable.
All in all, I don't know what your goal is for this. If it's just a curated book for your memories, it's great. If there's suppose to be a deeper meaning or investigation going on it's a very confusing read.
You seem to have 3 narratives happening simultaneously. The house photos and the interior shot from page 24-25 all fall into one story. Then we have the typical landscape + small person stuff that dominates the book but isn't connected the former 'story' in any visual way. Finally we have the random, deadpan-esque photos such as the opener or the photo on page 14-15. I really don't understand why these are here. I imagine YOU had an idea for these and why they are here, but to an unacquainted viewer I don't get it. I spent my time going through the book and went through it a few times looking for connections between pages, and couldn't find a common thread tying this all together.
Not trying to bash your work, just opening up a dialogue and hoping to here some reasons for your choices. Again, if this is just a book for your memories ignore all this crap about 'story' and shit that I'm mentioning.