Unphotographable

"This is a picture I did not take of a schoolgirl in blue plastic flip-flops, who ran past me on her way to school as I descended from the village of Asheta Maryam, Ethiopia, down a steep pitched trail of loose scree on which I dangerously slid every other step in my high-tech running shoes, eating her dust."

Unphotographable: "a text account of pictures missed" is to photography what the fish that was THIS BIG is to fishing. They both make for great stories with descriptive narratives, about something that wasn't.

10 March 2005 by Melissa Lyttle

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