Key learning points

1. Photographers can represent physical and psychological boundaries through interior and exterior spaces.
2. Photographers might use framing, perspective and scale to connect or separate inside and outside spaces.
3. Photographs can explore the relationship between personal, private spaces and wider, public or natural settings.
4. Some photographers explore the boundary between external appearance and internal experience.

Keywords

• Space - the area around, between and within objects. It can be physical, like a room, or it can be visual

• Threshold - a point of change, a space between two different areas

• Barrier - things that block, separate, or divide spaces, people, or ideas

• Framing - how an artist chooses to surround or crop a subject in a photograph

Common misconception