“Descent”
The sun had reached an arc in the morning sky that made shooting outside problematic.
Inside a cool building the sound of footsteps on stair treads drew me towards a spiral descent. In Stephen Shores book The Nature of Photographs he talks about the illusion of the image. How the viewer is drawn into a two dimensional photograph only to find a three dimensional world beneath. Here the downward spiral to darkness was captivating at first, but was given context just as the person entered the last archway.
Playing with perspective is one of the joys of photography. Creating depth and illusion in a two dimensional photographic world.
As the staircase recedes into darkness the subject and the viewer descending with it.
