WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN
To look at these images and wonder what is about to happen, can create a miriad of situations. Anything could be about to happen. Is the man on the ground dead or alive. Did the man standing by the trees kill him or is he just watching the figure in front of him. Is the man near the trees going to help the man lying on the floor, his stance suggests not. He stands with hands behind his back more in contemplation than in action. It does not appear to me that he is about to do anything at all. Quite the contrary in fact, he seems to me that he will just stand there and watch and then turn his back and walk away.
Photographs are ambiguous. It is almost impossible to tell what will actually happen because there are a 1001 possible outcomes. The story can not be fully told from the photograph and so all we can do as the viewer of a photograph is to surmise.
Photographs are interpreted by the viewer's own experiences and ideas. We can be told by the artist what his or her intention was when phtographing this scene, but the viewer can not say for sure what is about to happen, he/she can only make a decision about the outcome from his/her own experiences, conceptions and personal ideas.
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