Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore has been a widely published photographer for the past forty years. His landscape work stood out to me because he uses similar patterns that I have found in my work. 

In the image above he photographs buildings which is something I want to concentrate on. When people say 'Landscape photography'  people usually think of pictures of things like mountains and nature and things like that. However I decided to look more at buildings in urban landscapes. 

I'd like my images to all have a certain similarity to each other in the way they are composed. I like the idea of capturing a lot of sky in the image with something in the centre which is a focus point of the image with minimal ground in the image, like Stephen Shore's image above. 

I also want to try and get a sort of symmetry in my images, not so it is obvious, but more so there are similar shapes on both sides of the image. Like the one above, it is not perfectly symmetrical but it is in the sense that there is a centre point of the image in the middle (the double doors), and then a single door on each side which creates the symmetry. The symmetry is also in the second image with the furthest hill in the background being the focus point of the image, with a hill on either side of it. Even in the first image, there is a look of symmetry as there is one small building in the middle, and then a high rise building on either side.