The Drug Bench
I recently went through my archive of photos on my hard drive looking for shots to print out for friends. This one was quite nice, I thought it was cute so I decided to give it to miss Ggibbings as a surprise gift, seeing as she was going away for awhile.
At first I thought the girl’s worried face and the boys obnoxious snare amongst the trashy wall covered in tags and bad advertisements was all there was to this photo, but I was diminishing some bigger details. The guy at the printers asked me where I shot this and then told me this was actually a ‘drug bench’ where deals would go down. He told me drugs were hidden there and we both tried to look and see if i had captured any. None, thankfully. He said that fact gave ‘gravity’ to the photo and indeed it did. Looks like I didn’t give it the true credit it deserved.
Not a bad gift hey? It’s hanging as an A3 in her hallway, framed and all.
