Low-Angle View at a Paris Memorial with Concrete Stelae

5 October 2017 · Paris

A low-angle frame at a Paris memorial turns scale into the subject. Foreground boots and denim fill the edges of the image; between them, a lone figure in a dark jacket stands small against the concrete stelae that rise and tilt behind him. The overcast sky strips the scene of shadow, leaving only the geometry of the slabs and the gap between near and far. Proximity does the framing — the figures in front and the figure behind never acknowledge each other, yet the composition makes them inseparable.