Gui Le Querrec

Afrique de l'Ouest. Mali. Gao, Hôtel Atlantide. 20ème jour du "Raid 88 - Renault 19 / Conakry - Cap Nord". Mercredi 21 septembre 1988

This photo is by Gui Le Querrec and is an interior of a bare room with and a window looking to the street. There is a curtain blowing in the wind creating a diagonal line across the composition. It brings the viewer's eye from the darker top right corner into the middle of the frame where the window is. The contrast between the light window and dark room becomes a focal point. There are 2 horizon lines: one inside the room and one outside through the window, both leaning to the same focal point out the window. The shadows, door frame, window, curtain and corner of the room create geometrical shapes leading viewer's eye around. I like how the geometrical elements flattened the space into shapes, yet there is still depth.

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