Prompts

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”~Duane Michals. 

 I agree with this quote. I think it's hard enough to look past appearances in person, let own from a photograph. A picture captures the appearance of something, but it is hard to capture the inner qualities of someone. Some photographs are able to do this, but the ones I take are usually shallow moments frozen in time.

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.” ~Lewis Hine

 

I think that people are capable of telling stories in many ways. Whether with pictures, in words, or in other ways. I don't think that people who make stories with photographs are incapable of creating them with words either. Sometimes images are perfect for story-telling, because they capture moments along the way of a story. For example, a photo series of someone sneaking up on a clueless victim with a bucket of water. The photographer can capture the set-up, the action, and the reaction in segments that show the viewer exactly what was going on. 

A situation in which words are necessary to reveal the story is one where the action is purely internal. A war of thoughts is certainly more difficult to capture on film than a physical scene, although some photographers are very good at capturing emotions in portraits.