The photo below has been chosen as it encapsulates the elements of the photo-book that interest me and relate to my essay.

The image has been taken using studio lighting, as evidenced by the background and the direction of the lighting. The light appears to be coming from slightly to the left of the camera, this can be inferred from the direction of the drop shadow as well as the amount of shallow details visible on the right face of the sculpture. Not much else can be inferred about technical aspects of the image due to the use of studio lighting, this allows a lower ISO and faster shutter to be use to reduce grain however this isn’t implicit in the image. The image features a single central subject, that being the chalk sculpture made by making clean cuts onto a block of raw chalk. these clean incisions strongly contrast the textured surface from the uncut chalk; in conjunction with the studio lighting, the flat, clean surfaces of the chalk appear to be flat and are often painstakingly oriented to line up with the table occasionally creating the effect that the image is composed of 2 separate images spliced together. The word ‘erratic’ referring to “a rock that has been transported by a glacier to somewhere far from its native environment.”. The body of work is focused of rock formations and sculpted chalk with the subject of the photos alternating across pages between the found rocks (particularly the stones within the desert at the start of the book) where these monolithic structures are contrasted with the man-made chalk sculptures. The outdoor shots spanned from the white cliffs of Dover to eastern Egypt. The use of sliced chalk facilitates the contrast of the textured, natural surface of the stone as well as the smooth faces where it has been cut.