White Wall:

For this triptych, I experimented with the repetition of a white wall being in the picture. This white wall helps to draw the audience’s eye to each picture; however, I don’t believe that all of these photos are composed the same way, and they don’t highlight the same theme. I was trying to idealize the idea of old and new with the white wall representing the new modern-ness of the world, whereas the texture, discolouration, or reflection in each picture.

Steps to Life:

Iteration 1:

Here, I focused on framing the photos with the white border on the outside rather than focusing on the leading lines created by the stairs. This looked messy and un-put-together as all of the lines in the picture were unaligned and didn’t allow the triptych to look fluid as a set.

Iteration 2:

In this version, the lines of the stairs still did not line up accordingly, and I forgot to remove the white border from the right image, which made the composition of the set look unbalanced and wrong. I had to work a lot on cropping all three photos to have similar orientations when it comes to the railing of the stairs, lining up in each picture. I also had originally considered trying to align my three photographs to allow the stairs to look like they were descending through each picture. However, I attempted to crop the photos and achieve this, but was unsuccessful and discovered that cropping the photos in that manner would result in me discarding the elements in front of the stairs that I was also trying to capture.

Iteration 3:

In this set, I adjusted and cropped all of the photos to align the angles of the railing throughout the three pictures to make the set more cohesive. I tried this set with colour instead of the black and white that I had attempted before to allow for more insight into the picture.

Final Iteration:

This is my final iteration of my stair reflection triptych. I was very close to using the coloured version of this set, but I decided that the meaning of my triptych would be more impactful and the images would look less raw if it weren’t in colour. For this set, I experimented with the reflection of stairs from different angles to capture the various elements that stood in front of the stairs in real life. I was also intrigued by the texture of the brick wall behind the staircase and how the rusty metal reflected in the window. When creating this triptych, I had to go through multiple variations to make the most concordant triptych I could without removing any elements in the image I wanted to capture.

Architectural Nothingness:

In these photographs, I wanted to capture the essence of loneliness in these various architectural pieces. All three elements stand alone, without anything around them. The negative space contained in each picture adds to this idea of solidarity and how, in a world full of people, one can still be alone.