

A cinematic photograph taken from outside a car at night, in a car wash tunnel, the camera close to the driver's side glass. Cold blue-white lamps burn overhead in the tunnel and the air is thick with steam, so the light comes down in visible shafts. White foam has already run down over the lower half of the glass and is climbing, and a sheet of water runs across the rest, so her face behind it is broken into moving bands. She sits still behind the wheel with her chin lifted and her eyes on the mirror above her. Her white-blonde hair is the brightest thing inside the car. Everything inside the car is deep blue-black, and her skin is the only warm colour anywhere in the picture. Far behind the car, through the open end of the tunnel, one warm orange street lamp. The door frame cuts the picture down the right side. 50mm, camera outside the glass, f/2.8, the running water on the glass the sharpest thing and her face already soft behind it. Muted, melancholic mood, hyper-realistic, fine film grain. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy