Prompt 1 (RL)

My image is a photograph from Thomas Roma's 1996 book, Found in Brooklyn. A large, torn and marked metallic object lies on the sidewalk outside a gated cemetery under a wide open sky with a tall building in the background. The object juts out from the right side of the image. It looks for its shape and markings like a whale - the cuts in the metal towards the left form an eye and mouth. A bridge or above ground railway casts a shadow on the top part of the object. I like this image because it is the result of a photographer looking at the world in an unusual way. By putting 4 edges around a street scene that was probably unremarkable in and of itself, the photographer has made a new object, the photograph, that questions our preconceptions about the world around us and what it looks like.