Hi, Saturday, January 8, 2005, 10:46:14 PM, Shel wrote:
> <LOL> > It was just a couple of pics back that someone said titles and context are > often a detriment. That depends on the type of photograph and the use it's put to. Any picture which purports to be journalism - and I'm not suggesting that this does - needs a caption at least. > I think the pic makes it pretty clear as to what's going on, but then, I've > seen lots of people shooting heroin and injecting insulin, as well as > shooting up lots of other injectables, so I'd not confuse this with > injecting insulin. > The title as seen in the browser bar says "Untitled - H" - that makes it > pretty clear as to what's being injected I think. Only in a language where the drug starts with 'H'. > What would you suggest as context or background? Not everybody has the same experience of people injecting. I've seen people shooting up heroin, but never insulin, as far as I know. I have no idea whether or not it's different. Maybe it's different still for methadone or some other heroin substitute, or the same - I don't know, and most of your viewers probably don't either. The type of context I would want to know is: who, what, when, where and why. Who are these people? What is their relationship to each other - is one a regular user, a recovering user, first time user? Is the other also a user, or some kind of social worker or medical person? Are they part of the same family? Is this a recent photograph? How do you as a photographer come to be there? What are they injecting - heroin, sugar water, methadone, insulin, something else? Is the needle clean - e.g. from a medical or charitable supply? Where is this taking place? What are their circumstances? Is there a backstory that tells us how they got into this situation? -- Cheers, Bob
