HW 1

“Voice Tunnel” by Matthew Pillsbury takes images of New York City and emphasizes the location as the main subject rather than the people. The photographer’s intention in this photograph is to clear the room and make the background the emphasis. However, the person standing in the middle does immediately catch your eye, meanwhile everyone  else is a blur. “Voice Tunnel’’ symbolizes the echoes of people all around and because New York City is constantly fast paced; as humans we aren’t able to catch everything at once. He uses the scenery and the one person as the subject to captive the viewer.  This person standing is as if they’re taking it all in. The mood of the photograph is overwhelming, overwhelming in the sense that the person standing feels overpowered because of the amount of people and the fast pace that is happening.

In this photograph, leading lines are a component from where the person is standing to the end of the tunnel. It also has the dominant eye factor which is the person standing right in the middle. Finally, the photograph demonstrates symmetry, the tunnel and stripe lines show symmetry. Leading lines create movement. A feeling of going towards something and the tunnel with the light at the end of it makes it curious to the viewer as to what could really be at the end of it. The dominant eye is the woman standing in the middle of the tunnel, it’s a moment of captivation. The symmetry element in the photograph is compelling because the tunnel with the stripes and the person in the middle frames the photograph. It is pleasing to the eye because of how symmetrical it is but also the contrast of the people being in different blur exposures just gives that imperfect yet perfect element to the photograph.