Street Photography Story Time

Why not tell a story about this photo. Usually when I see elaborate captions about a picture, it reminds me of Instagram and the impulsive desire to seek validation from strangers. The longer the caption, the more keywords and chance that the algorithm will push your photo to the masses. But I think this is a cool photo so here’s the story. It’s obviously a photo showing a man struggling to push a man up a hill on his wheel chair. Bonus for what looks like a very large penis dangling from his groin area. It’s really just the arm of he sweatshirt hanging down. That’s it, that’s the photo. After watching the man struggle for a bit, I walked over and helped him push the wheelchair up the hill. I assumed they knew each other, but no. The man struggling was merely helping a stranger like I was. We got him to the top of the hill and the other man took off. I did the same until the man in his wheelchair asked me to push him further down the road to his bus stop. Which I gladly did. Once I made it to the bus stop, he thanked me, shook my hand and that was that

Published by Chris Athanasiadis

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio but currently residing in Santa Monica, California.

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