Prompt
· English
View from the pavement through a shop or cafe window, the street reflected faintly over the glass, of a 31-year-old mother and her 12-year-old daughter standing at the open service hatch of a parked taco truck at night. The daughter, a 12-year-old girl of North African descent with light olive skin, soft springy coils, short cropped hair, light brown hair colour, neatly combed, wearing a dinosaur T-shirt and shorts, is curious and leaning in, reaching up toward a menu board while the mother holds a paper tray containing two tacos. The mother is a 31-year-old woman of Southern European descent with light beige skin, a curvy figure, short stature, an angular face with hollow cheeks, warm brown eyes, thin fine eyebrows, thick deep waves, ear-length hair, honey-blonde hair colour, in shoulder-grazing locs, thick black-framed glasses, biting the lower lip nervously, the eyes darting sideways, wearing a navy-and-white striped long-sleeve shirt and khaki chinos. The scene includes handwritten specials on a dry-erase board, red plastic stools stacked on the roof of the truck, and a single ketchup packet squeezed onto a napkin. The disposable film camera at arm's length creates slightly soft corners, low-key light with one small lamp and most of the frame in black, and the main figure cut by the frame edge, only part of it in the picture. Shot on a disposable film camera, capturing the grain and soft focus of a casual snapshot.
