The art of seeing
Embracing vertical orientation, Benedict Brain rediscovers the joy of making diptychs
Dip into your archives and try pairing seemingly unrelated images to make new meanings, says our columnist. It’s fun!
Looking through my images, I realised that I was framing in the landscape orientation more often than not. It wasn’t deliberate, and this made me curious as to why. Despite thinking about it a lot, I’m not sure. However, I did decide to try to make more images in the vertical orientation and see how this affected my imagemaking. It was liberating in a way, and I sense that my creative process has opened up as a consequence. Of course, I’d taken vertically oriented images before, but I was holding on to some sort of horizontal hang-up, and it was good to be free of it.