Romain Jacquet-Lagreze - Vertical Horizon

Vertical Horizon, September 2012

300 mm x 210mm, Hardcover book

This series by Jacquet-Lagreze is from a book he released in September 2012. Like me, he is trying to achieve an alternative space (a vertical horizon) from an existing space. He is achieving this by pointing his camera directly upwards changing what we know as the horizon line to exist high along the vertical plane. Therefore we see the spaces as single point perspective spaces along the horizon (as we know it). Much like what I stated in my earlier posts, some are more successful then others because of how the spaces are enclosed and the angles are straight 90 degree perpendicular angles.

These images below read more as spaces to me due to the way they are enclosed and framed.

Where as these ones less so:

The one above may read more as space with the addition of a tree which does not usually grow horizontally from the edges of buildings. Another good thing to add to my own photographs could be something which gives a sense of scale, or alters the sense of scale.