Balancing
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Liquid
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Shiny
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Glass
Balancing.
A personal series about how fragrance bottles behave as objects. A range is usually shown as a row, which tells you the sizes and nothing else. I wanted the relationship between the formats to be the picture. Balance is the hard part, and it is hard in the plain physical sense. Glass on glass slides, and a cantilevered bottle has one position where it holds and a great many where it goes over. Each configuration was found on the day rather than drawn in advance. Graduated sizes tilted, propped and leaned against one another until the stack sat still, on cool grey and grey-blue gradients that keep the eye on the geometry rather than on a background. One frame catches a bottle in mid-air, intersecting a diagonal splash, which is the same idea released from the floor.
There is no gel, no set and no liquid effect carrying these. A wet reflective floor, droplets, clean specular edges on the glass, and the arrangement doing the work, which was the test I set myself with balanced composition photography. That same restraint sits under the Technicolour series. Shot in London by David Lineton.
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