Photography as Documentation: Expanding Ideas Pt. 2

Continuing with the concept of mapping the process of aging, I arranged photos of my father and myself on a grid system to experiment with how the abrupt breaks would effect the spacial and transitional qualities of the composition. Although I do not intend to directly pursue this concept, the process of creating it helped me to generate new ideas for how I want to use this idea to depict time and space.
After visiting the Spencer and viewing Elliot Erwitt's Diana, I developed an idea in which the transition from me to my father is not only represented in a physical manner (aging), but also by using receding, compartmentalized areas (similar to Erwin's) to indicate stages of life.

This is a concept in which I combined formal elements from Erwitt's Diana with the process of aging emphasized by receding space in the composition. Each 20 year division in the collage would be composed of photographs reflecting that period in one's life. Instead of arranging a composition emphasizing the differences between my and my father's faces, I wanted to treat our lives as parallel's and map the process of a man's life by incorporating photos of my father, brother, and I as the same person.