Is a photograph a 'document' of the real? If the depth of the photograph is reduced and the nature of the scene becomes unclear, doesn't it create a tension in the image — that of not knowing. The camera, as a reality reproducing device when creates representations of reality that challenges interpretation creates a psychic space, as Walter Benjamin said by “stripping places and objects of their banal obviousness’”.
The details disappear into featureless shadows and in another way limits the viewer to see only what is offered, although, in your imagination, have you not peered beyond the foreground into a distant place?
