The Mindful Photographer

Sequencing

Photographers carefully place images in a particular order for many reasons: narrative, the development of an idea, and to contextualize meaning between one image to another. The careful and sensitive sequencing of images underscores our intended message and creates a rhythm, a flow between images, and helps meaning evolve. The impression of an entire page of photographs on Instagram or a website is a potent form of communication. Indeed, the first few seconds that a viewer observes your feed, or the short time that an art director or gallery owner may browse your initial images, often dictates if further viewing and consideration will take place—a process equivalent to the first lines in a novel or prose.

For my recent project, ...