Marian Bantjes “Varoom: Style”, a collected collage of black and white photographs to show off her “organic” style of design. 

From the second I saw this photo I was immediately captivated by the framing. Every photo in this collage is separated by its own individual black line frame, but the collection as a whole is framed in that same line. Each photo highlights a foreground which is created by some form of negative space. For example, the photo in the upper most left corner has my eye focusing on the shadow of the palm leaf. This is for many reasons. One, being that the white negative space (the light of day) pushes the shadow forward. The shadow is also perfectly centered and my eye focuses on it even more because of the pictures individual black frame.

My favorite photo in this collage is by far the photo of the deck slats (the bottom left corner) because of the figure-ground reversal makes it hard to differentiate which is actually the focus, either the the light between the railing, or the actual shadow itself.

The individual photos also act as different points in which can be read either way. No matter which way the viewer looks at this collage, he or she will look at the photos individually and have to look at their contents.

While I believe the collective work to be somewhat asymmetrical (the photos are not really aligned in a way that could be considered reflective), some of the individual photos like the deck rails, and the pixelated “8” do have symmetrical qualities to them, which in return keeps the photo interesting to look at as a whole.