Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

My library is an archive of longings.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.