Gaston Bachelard perceived the strange paradox that you could be gazing out at a distant landscape, and yet have an experience of being intimate with it. He coined the term “Intimate Immensity” to describe this paradox of scale. This series of images uses the term in the opposite way: the intimacy you feel when a face is close enough may yet give an experience of vastness, opposite of Bachelard’s Intimate Immensity, and the inverse of its paradox.

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