I was drawn to this image for perhaps obvious reasons. I was fascinated by what looks to be a 13 year old girl smoking a cigarette. The original image is a medium 3 shot with what looks like another young adolescent girl to the right, and a stilted figure to the left. I re framed the image to focus on this young girl with her cigarette with a somewhat troubled look on her face. Emphasizing the cigarette and the young girl, you can see that she looks as if she has been smoking for years; but the elegance of her young face and white dress suggest differently. The original image takes advantage of the rule of thirds with some kind of bazaar figure on stilts in the left quadrant, the smoking girl in the middle, and the friend in the right third. The original images create depth with lines that extend from the smoking girl, back to the stilted figure, and even beyond that into the woods following a dirt road.
An affinity is created between the girl’s innocence of her face and white dress and her smoking cigarette. They seem to be relatable because you immediately notice her pretty face and white dress, then you jump to the cigarette. This creates an uncomfortable tension when you look at it. After looking at the cigarette closely it does not appear to be lit or smoking. So we can only hope it is make believe.
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