Format possibilities

I’m thinking about format possibilities today, in terms of how I want the self-portraits to relate to each other. My first thought was of creating a “mosaic” with the self-portraits, with each image cropped in to create a more claustrophobic and overwhelming effect.

Compositional Study

The other part of me wants to let the portraits breathe a little more and stand more on their own, so I also considered a sequential format that would read from left to right, reminiscent of an animation sequence.

Compositional Study

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  1. Both ideas are pretty powerful. The contiguous image pod is claustrophobic and I find my eyes darting from face to face, considering the whole as more striking than the sum of its parts. The isolated series below invites a more prolonged contemplation of each image as a self contained entity. I think they are both very interesting presentations, but for different reasons.

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