Alone Time - Jillian Rencher

Photo Essay
125 pages

This photo essay peeks into the diary of a 20-something college student navigating her social media addiction.

Alone Time

Around June, I started getting frustrated with my overuse of social media, to the point where it was feeling detrimental to my health. I started journaling to make sense of it. What I ultimately end up with is alone time, a read-my-diary photobook where landscapes of my life are interrupted by my real journal entries, picking apart how much technology dictates how I walk through the world.

Film image of a porcelain sink from above. It has one gold faucet handle and one silver faucet handle. The entire image bleeds off the page, spanning across a 2-page spread.

Film image of a porcelain sink from above. It has one gold faucet handle and one silver faucet handle. The entire image bleeds off the page, spanning across a 2-page spread.

Layout from my photobook. Two square crop images live on the left page of the spread. The top image is of a blue house. The second image is a close-up of a lit candle. On the right side of the spread, there is a handwritten journal entry. Four silver star stickers decorate the page.

Two square crop images live on the left page of the spread. The top image is of a blue house. The second image is a close-up of a lit candle. On the right side of the spread, there is a handwritten journal entry. Four silver star stickers decorate the page.

layout from my photobook. Across the spread, is a handwritten phone timelog. At the top of the left spread, there is a scan of a physical movie ticket for decoration.

Across the spread, is a handwritten phone timelog. At the top of the left spread, there is a scan of a physical movie ticket for decoration.

Layout from my photobook. On the left page of the spread is a square crop picture of the side of a building. Taking up two-thirds of the spread is a film image of the shore of a river.

On the left page of the spread is a square crop picture of the side of a building. Taking up two-thirds of the spread is a film image of the shore of a river.

Layout from my photobook. Across the spread, is a handwritten log documenting one day of a week without my smartphone. At the top of the left spread, there is a scan of a eucalyptus leaf with silver heart-shaped earrings pierced through for page decoration,

Across the spread, is a handwritten log documenting one day of a week without my smartphone. At the top of the left spread, there is a scan of a eucalyptus leaf with silver heart-shaped earrings pierced through for page decoration,

a film image of the side of a building. The paint on the building is pink, blue and white.

AÌýfilm image of the side of a building. The paint on the building is pink, blue and white.