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I chose this photo because of the tender look in the subject's eye. The lean forward, the delicate and poisedly half full mug, the ashtray. Can this image say anything other than family? There's deep familiarity here but also an almost uncanny staging and an element of transition in the emptiness of the scene.

This image seems honest, I chose it at the Broadway Antique Market in Chicago because it seemed so bright and earnest. It's shiny. But, especially in comparison to the snapshot of "Annette and Rochay" It seems calculated. In the other picture you're looking into a little window, the colors are carelessly faded. You get that here too in a different way though both share a sense of being forgotten. The window here is created by the photographer and the relationship between the picture-taker and the woman we see. It's so misty.