A small bridge crosses dark water beneath a warm, open landscape. Following that near passage into the picture reveals how a large tree, a glimpse of a building, and the bright distance give the eye different places to settle.
Brenda Reichel
Brenda’s visual essays begin with a page or an object that has been deliberately arranged. She writes about design through the order of images and the spaces between them, asking how a small shift changes the whole composition.
The stories
The page looked finished until the text arrived. Notes from a magazine layout: working with uneven paragraphs, deciding where a picture should end, and leaving enough room for a reader to find a way through.