I never completely bought into the belief that “a picture tells a thousand words”. There are way too many times when a well-crafted caption better captures the moment in a picture. The following picture was made in haste, with an iPhone, at a time when I was still getting used to the camera more than a decade ago.
It was a little after breakfast on a cold Istanbul morning. A man walked into the cafe, ordered a drink (and then a second one)… He took a drag on his cigarette. He seemed to have found a moment to ponder the world around him, or beyond him.
A streetcar rushes by in a blur on the edge of the cafe’s front.
