Prompt
· English
First-person view, the photographer's own hands at the bottom edge of the frame, of a 72-year-old woman standing stiffly in the center of an empty, unfurnished moving van. She is gasping in surprise with her eyebrows shot up and mouth wide open, her oval face showing light olive skin, green eyes and thin fine eyebrows, a thin silver nose ring, and a smooth shaved head with jet-black hair colour where the scalp is smooth and catching the light. She has a lean wiry build and is short, of Polynesian descent, wearing an unbuttoned red flannel shirt over a black tank top and worn jeans. She holds a cardboard box that is clearly too large for her, with frayed edges and a single piece of packing tape sticking out from the box. The vast white space of the van surrounds her, and dust motes float in the shaft of light coming from the rear doors. Strict symmetry places the main figure on the centre line of the van's interior. Light from a few candles creates a warm flicker on the nearest surfaces and darkness behind, though the van is lit primarily by the shaft from the doors. Shot on a macro lens a few centimetres from the surface, a razor-thin plane of focus keeps the woman sharp while the van walls blur slightly, with a realistic texture of the cardboard and skin.
