The idea of ‘photography’ brings an immediacy to life, yet it still falls short of a full representation of what a particular setting truly represents. Instead, a photograph must use stand-ins – metaphor, intimation, the creation of the not-real – to make its point. Rather than saying ‘this is a picture of a girl, perhaps 14 or so, selling chickens at a market in Pignon, Haiti,’ a description could emphasize the shot’s framing, mentioning that only the girl has a head and that all the other vendors, much older than the girl, have been cropped off at the neck. It could discuss the trussed-up chicken, bound, perhaps dead, tucked under her arm and ready to be either eaten or sold, filling its small purpose in the economic and social setting of a third-world country. Or the image could be none of these things: It’s just a picture.