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What to leave out

A contact sheet is a way to see the photographs between the photographs.

Ellis Hart ·

Turquoise lake surrounded by rocky, snow-capped mountains in Langtang, with a sandy shoreline under a clear blue sky.

I print contact sheets at a size that makes every frame equally modest. The strongest image on its own is not always the one the series needs.

Read the gaps

Place the prints in a row, then remove one at a time. A repeated shape can connect two places. Too many repetitions can close the sequence down.